Pride, results of

The real nature of pride can be seen in the fact that it leads to many other evils and ends in destruction.

Pride leads to other forms of evil

Self-deception

Galatians 6:3 See also Deuteronomy 8:17–18; Isaiah 16:6, Isaiah 47:10; Jeremiah 49:16 parallel Obadiah 1:3; 1 Corinthians 8:2; 1 Timothy 6:3–4

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Spiritual blindness

Jeremiah 43:2 See also Deuteronomy 8:14; Nehemiah 9:16, Nehemiah 9:29

Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are lying! The LORD our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to reside there.’

A hard heart

Psalm 36:2 See also Psalm 10:3, Psalm 52:1; Daniel 5:20

For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.

A malicious spirit

Psalm 119:85 See also Psalm 73:8, Psalm 140:5

The arrogant have dug pits for me in violation of Your law.

Contempt for others

Psalm 123:4 See also Psalm 119:51; Proverbs 21:24

We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.

Quarrelling

Proverbs 13:10

Arrogance leads only to strife, but wisdom is with the well-advised.

Violence

Psalm 73:6 See also Esther 3:5–6; Psalm 86:14

Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.

Injustice

Psalm 119:78 See also Psalm 56:2

May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.

Oppression

Psalm 10:2 See also Psalm 119:122; Habakkuk 2:4–5

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Contempt for God

Psalm 10:4 See also 2 Kings 19:22

In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.

Pride may be accompanied by temporary prosperity

Psalm 73:3 See also Psalm 10:5

For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Pride ends in disaster

Proverbs 16:5, Proverbs 16:18 See also 2 Samuel 22:28 parallel Psalm 18:27; Job 40:11–12; Psalm 31:23, Psalm 101:5; Proverbs 11:2, Proverbs 15:25, Proverbs 26:12, Proverbs 29:23; Isaiah 2:11–12, Isaiah 2:17, Isaiah 13:11, Isaiah 26:5; Zephaniah 3:11; Malachi 4:1; Luke 1:51–52; 1 Timothy 3:6

Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Examples of the proud being humbled

Pharaoh: Exodus 14:28; Nehemiah 9:10; 2 Chronicles 26:16 Uzziah; 2 Chronicles 32:21; Isaiah 10:12, Isaiah 10:16; 2 Chronicles 32:25 Hezekiah; Esther 7:10 Haman; Isaiah 3:16–17 the women of Zion; Isaiah 13:19, Isaiah 14:11–15; Isaiah 23:9, Isaiah 25:10–12 Moab; Isaiah 28:1–3 Samaria; Isaiah 47:10–11; Jeremiah 50:31–32; Jeremiah 13:9; Ezekiel 7:24; Ezekiel 16:49–50 Sodom; Ezekiel 28:5–9, Ezekiel 28:17; Ezekiel 30:6, Ezekiel 32:12; Daniel 4:30–33 Nebuchadnezzar; Daniel 5:30 Belshazzar; Amos 6:8; Zephaniah 2:15 Nineveh; Zechariah 9:6, Zechariah 10:11 Assyria; Matthew 11:23 Capernaum; Acts 12:21–23 Herod; Revelation 18:7–8 Babylon the Great