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If there\u2019s ever a word that has been hijacked and twisted by our culture, it is \u201cpride\u201d. It is time to get back to basics<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n My mother used to quote scripture across the kitchen table. One of the verses frequently quoted was \u201cpride comes before a fall\u201d, paraphrasing Proverbs 16:18: \u201cPride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall\u201d. We need to focus on this reality of \u2018pride\u2019. Let\u2019s ignore \u2018haughty spirit\u2019 as it is virtually the same thing. If you are proud then you tend to have a haughty spirit. Haughty comes from the word \u2018high\u2019 \u2013 haughty people look down on others. Haughtiness and pride are really two sides of the same coin. \u2018Destruction\u2019 and a \u2018fall\u2019, of course, are two things we should avoid. Destruction means loss. A fall means injury.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n If there\u2019s ever a word that has been hijacked and twisted by our culture, it is \u201cpride\u201d. It is time to get back to basics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}