V3-28 Pride and Destruction
Walking Talking Bible Project
Why is pride detestable to God? How can pride lead to destruction? What’s the difference between pride, confidence, and honest assessment? How can we be sure we’re not among the wicked? These are just some of the questions to consider in this week’s edition of the Walking Talking Bible Project.
Bible Passages
The following Scripture quotations from The Berean Standard Bible (BSB) are provided for your convenience. Please feel free to use the Bible and translation of your choice.
Memory Passage: Proverbs 16:18
Proverbs 16:18
18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Connection Passage #1: Proverbs 16:4–5
Proverbs 16:4–5
4 The LORD has made everything for His purpose— even the wicked for the day of disaster.
5 Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.
Connection Passage #2 Obadiah 3–4
Obadiah 3–4
3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
4 Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
Connection Passage #3: Galatians 6:14
Galatians 6:14
14 But as for me, may I never boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Berean Standard Bible (BSB).