¹⁶ Be in harmony with one another. Do not have a high opinion of yourselves, but be in agreement with common people. Do not give yourselves an air of wisdom.

² When pride comes, there comes shame, but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

³ Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;

⁴ Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.

⁵ Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,

⁶ To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God;

²⁵ The house of the man of pride will be uprooted by the Lord, but he will make safe the heritage of the widow.

¹⁰ The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

¹² Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.

¹⁶ Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

¹⁷ But whoever has a desire for glory, let his glory be in the Lord.

¹⁸ For the Lord's approval of a man is not dependent on his opinion of himself, but on the Lord's opinion of him.

³⁷ Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give worship and praise and honour to the King of heaven; for all his works are true and his ways are right: and those who go in pride he is able to make low.

¹³ The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

¹² So let him who seems to himself to be safe go in fear of a fall.

¹¹ For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.

⁵ Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.

²³ A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.

³ And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

²⁸ And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

²⁹ So that no flesh might have glory before God.

³⁰ But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

²⁵ There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

⁶ But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.

² For all these things my hand has made, and they are mine, says the Lord; but to this man only will I give attention, to him who is poor and broken in spirit, fearing my word.

⁹ But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;

¹⁰ But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.

¹¹ For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith,

²³ Gentle behaviour, control over desires: against such there is no law.

²⁴ And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

¹⁸ Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.

²⁰ And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean.

²¹ Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

²² The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:

²³ All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.

²⁴ And he went away from there to the country of Tyre and Sidon. And he went into a house, desiring that no man might have knowledge of it: and he was not able to keep it secret.

¹¹ And the king of Israel said in answer, Say to him, The time for loud talk is not when a man is putting on his arms, but when he is taking them off.

⁴ The reward of a gentle spirit and the fear of the Lord is wealth and honour and life.

¹⁰ Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

⁵ And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.

⁶ For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;

⁷ Putting all your troubles on him, for he takes care of you.

⁸ Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

¹⁷ Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;