Found 101 Results for: Pride

• The fear of the Lord is glory and pride, happiness and a crown of joyfulness. (Ecclesiasticus 1, 11)

• Have the upright for your table companions, and let your pride be in fearing the Lord. (Ecclesiasticus 9, 16)

• Pride is hateful to God and humanity, and injustice is abhorrent to both. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 7)

• What has dust and ashes to pride itself on? Even in life its entrails are repellent. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 9)

• The first stage of pride is to desert the Lord and to turn one's heart away from one's Maker. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 12)

• Since the first stage of pride is sin, whoever clings to it will pour forth filth. This is why the Lord inflicts unexpected punishments on such people, utterly destroying them. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 13)

• Pride was not created for human beings, nor furious rage for those born of woman. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 18)

• The rich, the noble, the poor, let them pride themselves on fearing the Lord. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 22)

• She stands remote from pride, and liars cannot call her to mind. (Ecclesiasticus 15, 8)

• He did not spare the people with whom Lot lived; he abhorred them, rather, for their pride. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 8)

• There are three sorts of people my soul hates, and whose existence I consider an outrage: the poor swollen with pride, the rich who is a liar and an adulterous old man who has no sense. (Ecclesiasticus 25, 2)

• He will display the instruction he has received, taking his pride in the Law of the Lord's covenant. (Ecclesiasticus 39, 8)