OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 16:18

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Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

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Verse 18. Fall. Our first parents had given way to pride, before they sinned publicly. Saint Augustine de Civ. Dei. xiv. 13.

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