Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble ...  Throughout the holy Scriptures, proud and haughty spirits are condemned.  Pride leads the list of all of the sins  (Proverbs 6:16-18).  This passage echoes the very words of the Saviour (Luke 14:11).  Humility is such a wonderful virtue that all of the publican's sins did not destroy him because he had it; and all of the Pharisee's righteousness could not save him because he did not have it (Luke 18:1-14).