Proverbs 11:2: "When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom"
Prideful people toxicate themselves with sinfulness.
Proverbs 16:18-19: "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud"
Because pride loves their flesh and sin. Haughty attitude must want to change.
Proverbs 8:13: "To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech"
There is no reason why any person should be boasting or making anybody feel bad, because what you have is not worth boasting about unless it comes from the Lord. If I am going to boast I am boasting in the Lord in his salvation and his righteousness. I am realizing I am nothing without God. I am just a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
Romans 2:11-13 says There are no special privileges, meaning there is no respect for persons with God.
For as many as have sinned without law, meaning (without the word of God) shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law, meaning (with the word God) shall be judged by the law; meaning the word of God. For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. Meaning living in obedience to Abraham's faith.
So what are you boasting about? I am talking to individuals who like to boast. Your accomplishments and accolades, formality living in your power and control to make someone else feel lower than yourself in this world. This is wrong to do because love does not boast.
Envy leads to hatred and all kinds of wickedness. So there is no love in envy.
What is envy? A person feeling resentful. The word resentful means anger or displeasure.
While they desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable attribute belonging to (someone else). Which is called coveting.
Some would say, I can’t desire to have what someone else has, what is wrong with that?
The problem with coveting its leads to wickedness and the feeling of resentfulness is not love and takes you out of the spirit of God, and God is love.
The Hebrew word for "covet" can also be translated as "lust",
What happens when a person lusts after something with a strong desire to have it? The Negative consequences of this lead to wickedness and disobedience. It does not matter who you have hurt as long as you have your desire. It goes right back to Adam and Eve in the Garden. Eve desires something she was not supposed to have and what happen? So now mankind lives in those consequences, Adam and Eve.
Love does not envy. Learn more in this episode of Truth & Knowledge.
