Naaman was too proud of a man to do so, but eventually, he changed his mind and was healed. Elisha told Naaman that God would heal him if Naaman would go wash in the Jordan River, which was a very gross body of water. Naaman had a severe disease called leprosy, which would eventually kill him if nothing was done about it. “And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, ‘Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean.’ But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, ‘Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper.'” (2nd Kings 5:10-11 ESV) They beat and mock Jesus before sending Him to the cross, treating Jesus as though He were inferior to them. Lewis said, “the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.” We see pride, the utmost evil, in action as the guards take the King of the Universe, Jesus Christ, and treat Him as if He were no better than dirt. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’ And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head.” (Matthew 27:27-30 ESV)Ĭ.S. And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. “Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him.

Since not all pride is sin, let’s look at 25 important examples of pride in the Bible to learn exactly what sinful pride is so we can examine our own pride in our lives.

Sinful pride usually involves you thinking and acting in a way that shows you think you are better than God and/or the people around you. According to the Bible, pride is when you think too highly of yourself.

What is the opposite of pride