PRIDE CAN BE GOOD (2)
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Pride
a) Pride and forms of the word pride are seen throughout the Bible. Here is a definition of pride both from the Hebrew and the Greek.
2 Corinthians 7:2-4
Make room in your hearts for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one. 3 I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. 4 I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.
2 Corinthians 8:24
So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.
Galatians 6:4
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
The End ...
1. Pridea) Pride and forms of the word pride are seen throughout the Bible. Here is a definition of pride both from the Hebrew and the Greek.
i) From the Hebrew (OT): Various “ga’avah”, “ge’eh”, “gabah” and “rum” which mean majesty, pride haughtiness, exalted, highly exalted.
ii) From the Greek (NT): Various “hubris”, “hubristic”, “tuphow”, and “phusiow” which mean excessive pride or self-confidence, arrogance, puffed up, conceited.
b) The opposite of pride is humility and the Bible says that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6). Everyone is offered grace but to accept it you must swallow your pride and admit that your thinking is wrong and God is right. Let’s take a look at 20 other revealing Bible verses about pride.
Isaiah 2:11
The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
2. Pride Can Be Good
ii) From the Greek (NT): Various “hubris”, “hubristic”, “tuphow”, and “phusiow” which mean excessive pride or self-confidence, arrogance, puffed up, conceited.
b) The opposite of pride is humility and the Bible says that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6). Everyone is offered grace but to accept it you must swallow your pride and admit that your thinking is wrong and God is right. Let’s take a look at 20 other revealing Bible verses about pride.
Isaiah 2:11
The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
2. Pride Can Be Good
2 Corinthians 7:2-4
Make room in your hearts for us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have taken advantage of no one. 3 I do not say this to condemn you, for I said before that you are in our hearts, to die together and to live together. 4 I am acting with great boldness toward you; I have great pride in you; I am filled with comfort. In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.
2 Corinthians 8:24
So give proof before the churches of your love and of our boasting about you to these men.
Galatians 6:4
But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
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