Proud and boastful people will be shamed, but wisdom stays with those who are modest and humble.

To respect the Lord means to hate evil. I hate pride and boasting, evil lives and hurtful words.

Live together in peace with each other. Don't be proud, but be willing to be friends with people who are not important to others. Don't think of yourself as smarter than everyone else.

But the Lord said to Samuel, "Eliab is tall and handsome, but don't judge by things like that. God doesn't look at what people see. People judge by what is on the outside, but the Lord looks at the heart. Eliab is not the right man."

"Whoever boasts should boast only about the Lord."
What people say about themselves means nothing. What counts is whether or not the Lord says they have done well.

Your pride can bring you down. Humility will bring you honor.

This is all there is in the world: wanting to please our sinful selves, wanting the sinful things we see, and being too proud of what we have. But none of these comes from the Father. They come from the world.

A proud person will soon be ruined, but a humble person will be honored.

And Jesus said, "The things that make people wrong are the things that come from the inside.
All these bad things begin inside a person, in the mind: bad thoughts, sexual sins, stealing, murder,
adultery, greed, doing bad things to people, lying, doing things that are morally wrong, jealousy, insulting people, proud talking, and foolish living.
These evil things come from inside a person. And these are the things that make people unacceptable to God."

And God chose what the world thinks is not important what the world hates and thinks is nothing. He chose these to destroy what the world thinks is important.
God did this so that no one can stand before him and boast about anything.

Give this command to those who are rich with the things of this world. Tell them not to be proud. Tell them to hope in God, not their money. Money cannot be trusted, but God takes care of us richly. He gives us everything to enjoy.

I may give away everything I have to help others, and I may even give my body as an offering to be burned. But I gain nothing by doing all this if I don't have love.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, give praise, honor, and glory to the King of Heaven. Everything he does is right. He is always fair, and he is able to make proud people humble!