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XV.
Admonitions and Warnings
Chapter 163
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Pride
1. HOW does the Lord
regard pride?
"Six things doth1he Lord hate:
. . . a proud look," etc. Prov. 6:16-19.
2. Of what is pride a
forerunner?
"Pride goeth before destruction,
and an haughty spirit before a fall." Prov.
16:18. See Prov. 29:23.
3. What was the cause
of Satan's downfall?
"Thine heart was lifted up because
of thy beauty." Eze. 28:17.
4. What is God's
attitude toward the proud?
"God resisteth the proud."
James 4:6. See Ps. 40:4; 101:5; 138:6; 1 Tim.
6:4.
5. Why should we not
indulge in pride?
"An high look, and a proud heart, . .
. is sin." Prov. 21:4.
6. What is to be one of
the sins of the last days?
"Men shall be . . . proud." 2
Tim. 3:2.
7. How are the proud
now generally regarded?
"Now we call the proud happy."
Mal. 3:15.
8. What is to be the
fate of the proud?
"All the proud . . . shall be
stubble: and the day that
cometh shall burn them up." Mal. 4:1. |
