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Proverbs 18:12
Haughtiness goes before destruction; humility precedes honor.
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Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.
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1 Samuel 25 36-1 Samuel 25 38
When Abigail arrived home, she found that Nabal was throwing a big party and was celebrating like a king. He was very drunk, so she didn’t tell him anything about her meeting with David until dawn the next day.In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told him what had happened. As a result he had a stroke, and he lay paralyzed on his bed like a stone.About ten days later, the Lord struck him, and he died.
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Proverbs 24:27
Do your planning and prepare your fields before building your house.
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2 Samuel 15 1
After this, Absalom bought a chariot and horses, and he hired fifty bodyguards to run ahead of him.
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James 1:20
Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.
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James 3:14-16
But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don’t cover up the truth with boasting and lying.For jealousy and selfishness are not God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic.For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.
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Proverbs 17:14
Starting a quarrel is like opening a floodgate, so stop before a dispute breaks out.
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Proverbs 29:9
If a wise person takes a fool to court, there will be ranting and ridicule but no satisfaction.
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1 Kings 1 5
About that time David’s son Adonijah, whose mother was Haggith, began boasting,“ I will make myself king.” So he provided himself with chariots and charioteers and recruited fifty men to run in front of him.
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Proverbs 29:22-23
An angry person starts fights; a hot tempered person commits all kinds of sin.Pride ends in humiliation, while humility brings honor.
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Jeremiah 22:13-15
And the Lord says,“ What sorrow awaits Jehoiakim, who builds his palace with forced labor. He builds injustice into its walls, for he makes his neighbors work for nothing. He does not pay them for their labor.He says,‘ I will build a magnificent palace with huge rooms and many windows. I will panel it throughout with fragrant cedar and paint it a lovely red.’But a beautiful cedar palace does not make a great king! Your father, Josiah, also had plenty to eat and drink. But he was just and right in all his dealings. That is why God blessed him.
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Daniel 4:20-21
The tree you saw was growing very tall and strong, reaching high into the heavens for all the world to see.It had fresh green leaves and was loaded with fruit for all to eat. Wild animals lived in its shade, and birds nested in its branches.
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2 Corinthians 12 20
For I am afraid that when I come I won’t like what I find, and you won’t like my response. I am afraid that I will find quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly behavior.
