Claiming more for oneself than is one's due; the heart-disposition that exalts the self beyond what reality warrants. Greek alazon (boaster, braggart). James 4:6, quoting Proverbs 3:34: God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Paul's catalog of last-days behavior in 2 Timothy 3:1-5 lists arrogance among the marks of perilous-times disposition: For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers... . The arrogant heart is the inversion of the biblical pattern of Christ Himself, who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with God but emptied Himself (Phil 2:5-8). The cure for arrogance is the deliberate cultivation of humility through honest reckoning with one's actual standing before God: a sinner saved by grace, who has nothing he did not receive (1 Cor 4:7). Whoever truly knows what he was, what God has done, and what remains is no longer arrogant.