Is arrogance a good thing?
Psalm 36:11 Let not the foot of
pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Psalm 73:6 Therefore
pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil:
pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 11:2 When
pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs 13:10 Only by
pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 29:33 A man's
pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Daniel 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in
pride he is able to abase.
1Timothy 3:6 Not a novice, lest being lifted up with
pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
1John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the
pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Yeah....I don't think God likes arrogance/pride.