Orgulho
O orgulho é um dos pecados mais condenados na Bíblia. Deus resiste aos soberbos, mas dá graça aos humildes. A humildade é o caminho da honra verdadeira.
Deus resiste ao soberbo
A soberba precede a ruína e o orgulho antecede a queda. Deus abomina o coração altivo e promete humilhar quem se exalta.
Pride goeth before sorrow; and the spirit shall be enhanced before falling.
Abomination of the Lord is each proud man; yea, though the hand is to the hand, he shall not be innocent. The beginning of [the] good way is to do rightwiseness; forsooth it is more acceptable with God, than to offer sacrifices.
A way there is that seemeth rightful [or right] to a man; and the last things thereof lead to death.
The dread of the Lord hateth evil; I curse boast, and pride, and a shrewd way, and a double-tongued mouth.
Where pride is, there also despising shall be; but where meekness is, there also is wisdom.
Where pride is, there also despising shall be; but where meekness is, there also is wisdom.
Lowness followeth a proud man; and glory shall up-take a meek man of spirit.
Lowness followeth a proud man; and glory shall up-take a meek man of spirit.
The heart of man is enhanced, before that it be broken; and it is made meek, before that it be glorified.
The heart of man is enhanced, before that it be broken; and it is made meek, before that it be glorified.
The Lord shall destroy the house of proud men; and he shall make steadfast the coasts of a widow.
Humildade como caminho
Humilhai-vos diante do Senhor e Ele vos exaltará. A grandeza no Reino vem pelo serviço humilde, não pela autopromoção.
But he giveth the more grace; for which thing he saith, God withstandeth proud men, but to meek men he giveth grace.
Be ye meeked in the sight of the Lord, and he shall enhance you.
And a meek brother have glory in his enhancing,
and a rich man in his lowness; for as the flower of grass he shall pass.
Also, ye young men, be ye subject to elder men, and all show ye together meekness; for the Lord withstandeth proud men, but he giveth grace to meek men.
Therefore be ye meeked under the mighty hand of God, that he raise you in the time [or in the day] of visitation,
and cast ye all your busyness into him, for to him is care of you.
For each that enhanceth himself, shall be lowed [or be made low]; and he that meeketh himself, shall be highed.
nothing [doing] by strife, neither by vain glory, but in meekness, deeming each other to be higher [in virtue] than himself;
not beholding each by himself what things be his own, but those things that be of other men.
And feel ye this thing in you, which was also in Christ Jesus;
Os perigos do orgulho
O orgulho cega, gera contendas e afasta de Deus. A Escritura adverte contra a soberba da vida e a vã glória mundana.
For all thing that is in the world, is covetousness of flesh, and covetousness of eyes, and pride of life, which is not of the Father, but it is of the world.
Therefore he that guesseth him, that he standeth, see he, that he fall not.
And if I part all my goods into the meats of poor men, and if I betake my body, so that I burn, and if I have not charity, it profiteth to me nothing.
and God chose the unnoble things and despisable things of the world, and those things that be not, to destroy those things that be;
that each man have not glory in his sight.
He that glorieth, have glory in the Lord.
For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom God commendeth.
But he said, The things that go out of a man, those defoul a man.
For from within, of the heart of men come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, manslayings,
thefts, avarices, [or covetousness, or over-hard keeping of goods], wickednesses, guile, unchastity, evil eye, blasphemies, pride, folly.
All these evils come forth from within, and defoul a man.
Strives be ever among proud men; but they that do all things with counsel, be governed by wisdom.
The end of temperance is the dread of the Lord; riches, and glory, and life.
Command thou to the rich men of this world, that they understand not highly [or proudly], neither that they hope in uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, that giveth to us all things plenteously to use;
O olhar de Deus
O Senhor não olha como o homem. Ele vê o coração e se agrada dos quebrantados de espírito e dos que tremem diante da sua Palavra.
And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold thou not his cheer, neither the highness of his stature; for I have cast him away, and I deem not by man’s sight; for man seeth those things that be open, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.
Do not ye multiply to speak high things, and have glory therein; eld [or old] things go away from your mouth; for God is Lord of knowings, and thoughts be made ready to him.
Mine hand made all these things, and all these things be made, saith the Lord; but to whom shall I behold, no but to a poor man and contrite in spirit, and greatly dreading my words?
Now therefore I Nebuchadnezzar praise, and magnify, and glorify the king of heaven; for all his works be true, and all his ways be dooms; and he may make meek, [or low], them that go in pride.
And the king of Israel answered, and said, Say ye to him, A girded man, that is, he that goeth to battle, have not glory evenly as a man ungirded, that is, as he that hath the victory, and hath put off his armours.
Feel ye the same thing together; not understanding, [or savouring, or cunning], high things, but consenting to meek things, [following meek fathers]. Do not ye be prudent with yourselves;
But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, long abiding, benignity, [or good will], goodness, mildness, faith,
temperance, continence, chastity; against such things is no law.