pride is the very essence of sin. (Perhaps that’s why pride is number one on God’s “hate list.” See Prov. 6:16–19.) It was pride that turned Lucifer into Satan: “I will be like the Most High” (Isa. 14:14 NKJV). Satan used pride to tempt Eve: “You will be like God” (Gen. 3:5 NIV). British Bible scholar William Barclay wrote, “Pride is the ground in which all the other sins grow, and the parent from which all the other sins come.”
