Proverbs 17:19
He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
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- Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
- Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is 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. But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone. And it came to pass about ten days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died.