A Description of Sinful Pride Pride is a lofty self-respect totally apart from reality. It is high esteem of oneself from some imagined or real superiority. Pride is the antithesis of grace. The believer who is arrogant is totally blind to the grace of God. Pride is synonymous with vanity, which is empty pride in regard to one's person, attainments, or possessions coupled with an excessive desire to be noticed, a lust for attention, lust for approval or praise from others.
Pride is the pomposity of vain glory.
It is supercilious and haughty contempt of others. Pride supports a whole array of sins, such as jealousy, bitterness, vindictiveness, implacability, revenge motivation, revenge tactics, self-pity, conceit, inordinate ambition and competition, slander, gossip, and maligning. Pride is a mental attitude sin which overflows into the motivation, decision making and activity of the individual. Pride includes several different concepts. This is an excessive preoccupation with self and must be distinguished from ego, which is self-consciousness and is perfectly normal.