The KJV – An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
The Easy-to-Read Version – Proud looks and proud thoughts are sins. They show a person is evil.
The GNT – Wicked people are controlled by their conceit and arrogance, and this is sinful.
The Message – Arrogance and pride, distinguishing marks in the wicked, are just plain sin.
The NIV – Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the unplowed field of the wicked, produce sin.
The online Merriam-Webster dictionary defines haughty as: blatantly and disdainfully proud: having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior.
So, what is a high look? Have you ever seen someone who walks around with their nose up in the air as if they have to look down their nose just to see you? They think that they are better than everyone else. They think that other people are beneath them. We could say that those type of people are self-centered, preoccupied with oneself and with their own affairs. Maybe egotistical, excessively conceited, or self-absorbed in themselves. Or, maybe they are just arrogant, having or revealing an exaggerated sense of their own importance or abilities. But most definitely we could say that those people are prideful, having an excessively high opinion of themselves.
But what does God’s Word say about people with a high look or haughty eyes?
Proverbs 6:16-19, These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among the brethren.
Proverbs 30:13, There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Luke 11:34, The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.
The light is Christ. The eye is an example of spiritual knowledge and understanding. Sinful longings make the eye less delicate and scratch out the light of the presence of Christ. On the off chance that we struggle seeing God at work, we should have our spiritual vision checked to ensure there are no sinful thoughts or desires that might be blocking out the light of Christ.
Psalm 101:5, Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
Proverbs 16:18, Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proud individuals rarely assess their shortcomings and do not expect hindrances. They think they are over and above the frailties of average folks. In this perspective, they are easily entangled. Incidentally, proud individuals rarely understand that their pride is the problematic concern, in spite of the fact that everybody around them is very much aware of it. We ought to ask somebody we trust whether vanity, pride, or self-satisfaction has hindered us to potential warning signs. That individual may assist us with staying away from a fall.
1 John 2:16, For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Worldliness is not only an external behavior, but also an internal behavior. It gets its beginning from within the heart. It is portrayed by three perspectives (1) lust of the flesh, distraction with satisfying actual physical longings; (2) lust of the eyes, materialism, wanting and aggregating things; and (3) pride of life, fixation on one's status or significance. The serpent enticed Eve with these areas (Genesis 3:6). Likewise, when the Devil enticed Jesus in the wild, these were his three avenues of assault (Matthew 4:1-11).
To look down upon is defined as to consider someone or something lesser or inferior in some way.
1 Peter 5:5-6, Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
Both the youthful and the old can profit with Peter's guidelines. Pride regularly holds seniors back from attempting to comprehend youngsters and hold youngsters back from paying attention to their older folks. Peter advised both the youthful and the old to be modest and serve one another. Youngsters ought to follow the initiative of more seasoned men, who should show others the proper example. We are to regard our older folks, pay attention to those more youthful than ourselves, and be sufficiently humble to concede that we can gain something of value and worth from one another.
James 4:6, But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
Pride makes us conceited and drives us to believe that we merit all that we can see, contact, or envision. It creates within us greedy cravings for things far beyond what we actually need. We can be delivered from our egotistical longings, by lowering ourselves before God, understanding that we do not require anything except God’s mercy and grace. When the Holy Spirit fills us, we begin to understand that this present world's enchanting attractions are just modest substitutes for what God has to offer us.
Luke 18:11, The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
People with pride in their hearts like to think and act like the Pharisee at the temple. The Pharisee did not go to the sanctuary to appeal to God, however he went to declare to all inside earshot just how great he was. The tax collector went perceiving his transgression and asking for forgiveness. Piety or self-righteousness is hazardous. It prompts pride. It makes an individual harbor disdain toward others. It keeps an individual from taking in anything from God. The proud heart magnifies itself, not God. The Pharisee left the Temple still not in a right relationship with God. Have we ever left a church service like that?
Psalm 10:4, The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalm 138:6, Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
Proverbs 16:5, Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs 16:19, Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverbs 18:12, Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
Proverbs 21:24, Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
Proverbs 25:27, It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.
Proverbs 26:12, Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Daniel 5:20, But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
Romans 12:3, For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
1 Corinthians 13:4, Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Galatians 6:3, For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Do we keep ourselves humble and monitor our pride?
