13 Marriage Devotional: Pride
Marriage After God
Aaron & Jennifer Smith
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Today our devotional episode explores how pride damages marriages by fueling defensiveness, distance, and conflict. We look at what Scripture says about pride, how it shows up in everyday interactions, and why humility is essential for restoring intimacy and unity.
In this episode-
- Pride creates distance and conflict in marriage.
- Defensiveness and control are signs of pride at work.
- Scripture calls us to humility over self-exaltation.
- Humility opens the door to healing and connection.
- The Holy Spirit helps us recognize and overcome pride.
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Keywords: pride in marriage, humility, Christian marriage, conflict, intimacy, reconciliation, selflessness, spiritual growth, marriage podcast, biblical marriage
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Aaron. |
| 0:01.5 | And I'm Jennifer. |
| 0:02.3 | And we're the host of the Marriage After God podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | Our desire is to help you cultivate a marriage that chases boldly after God's will for your life together. |
| 0:08.5 | We want to invite you to subscribe to our show wherever you watch or listen. |
| 0:12.2 | We are so glad you're here, and we pray that our discussion truly blesses you and your marriage. |
| 0:16.5 | Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast. |
| 0:26.7 | Thank you. Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast. Today we are on week 13 of the Marriage After God devotional study, marriage study. |
| 0:32.3 | We're really excited to be here with you guys. |
| 0:34.5 | This is part 13 of a 30-week study. And yeah, we're just really excited to be |
| 0:40.1 | discussing today about pride and how it can destroy your marriage. Before we get into that, |
| 0:45.8 | though, we just want to ask you if you have not yet got a copy of our husband ever God |
| 0:49.8 | and wife after God devotionals. There are 30-day devotionals that this 30-week series is based on. You can go to shop.m. Marriageaftergodd.com. Pick up your copies today. That way you can be going through this series with us. You don't need the devotionals to go through this because we're here on the podcast doing it with you. But the devotionals are very powerful. You can write, there's spots for you to write your own answers to the questions, |
| 1:28.3 | to write notes. And it's really powerful to do it with your spouse, to be able to share what you guys are working on. So shop.m. Marriage Aftergoddogad.com, pick up a copy of these devotionals. But let's get into it. We're talking about pride. I'm sure no one here has dealt with pride. In fact, I think every single one of us have. |
| 1:28.3 | Pride is like it's like the, it's like our base. I'm sure no one here has dealt with pride. In fact, I think every single one of us have. |
| 1:33.2 | Pride is like it's like our base sin. |
| 1:35.2 | From it stems all other stems. |
| 1:35.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.6 | Because we're selfish humans in essence. |
| 1:42.5 | And it's only by God's power that we learn to not be prideful. But we're talking about pride today because it can and will destroy your marriage. |
| 1:46.0 | And so it's really important to discuss. |
| 1:48.3 | So either from our spouse being prideful toward us or us being prideful toward them, |
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