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may take their place. Another writer said,

"This is a very instructive verse because it shows

our conduct to others is determined by our

opinion of ourselves. When we're lifted up in

our own mind and think highly of ourselves, it's

very easy to be rude and hateful to other people

and treat them wrong, but when we think lowly

of ourselves and we exalt others, then we're

walking as our Savior Jesus Christ did upon this

earth.”

So what is vain glory again? It is the

boasting and vaunting of ourselves to be

superior to others, self-exaltation, the desire

of honor, prideful of who we are and what

we have. This must be worked upon. Pride

is one of the major things that all of us deal

with, whether young or old. Some of us may

never be tempted to the bottle, to the

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