Proverbs 17:19
He loveth transgression that loveth strife: He that raiseth high his gate seeketh destruction.
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- Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
- Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; And before honor goeth humility.
- 1 Samuel 25:36–38 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. And it came to pass about ten days after, that Jehovah smote Nabal, so that he died.