If someone cannot say out loud and in front of people that they used to be pond scum before Christ saved them, then perhaps they need to go back and read the words of God that describe us before we were born again.
No one can say they didn't do wrong, no one can say they were great people without flaws, and yet some believers act as though they never needed forgiveness.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 "9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God."
All of us were steeped in sin, full of unrighteousness before Christ saved us, NO ONE has any business feeling superior to others, not even one!
Romans 3:9-10 "9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin. 10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one;"
Haughtiness is sin!
Proverbs 16:18
"Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling."
Isaiah 16:6
"We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride; Even of his arrogance, pride, and fury; His idle boasts are false."
Jeremiah 48:29
"We have heard of the pride of Moab--he is very proud-- Of his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance and his self-exaltation."
2 Timothy 3:4
"treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,"
Self righteous people lead many others astray, even teaching by example to demean and dismiss others as though they were objects when they don't cater to their ways. Children especially learn more by example than they do by words.
The self righteous always elevate themselves above God and above His ways, claiming to love God they negate His word more than they obey it. These people seek to elevate themselves above others through mocking and lying against them.
2 Timothy 3:5-7
"5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth."
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