Pride stretches across a wide spectrum of meanings. In everyday life it can be tied to self‑worth, achievement, dignity, or even a sense of respect. Yet it also reaches into vanity, insecurity, idolatry, and the desire for praise. It touches wealth, status, reputation, and the constant concern over how one appears before others. Some forms of pride seem acceptable to society, while others are clearly destructive, but Scripture does not treat pride as harmless. The Bible overw