Verses About Pride

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud.

Before a downfall the heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

Haughty eyes and a proud heart—the unplowed field of the wicked—produce sin.

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

When his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.

The Lord detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished.

Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice.

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.

To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.

God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.

Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.

The Lord Almighty has a day in store for all the proud and lofty, for all that is exalted—and they will be humbled.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.

In his pride the wicked man does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.

Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence.

Though the Lord is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly; though lofty, he sees them from afar.

Hear and pay attention, do not be arrogant, for the Lord has spoken.

For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.

If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves.

All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, ‘God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.’

For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips.

Do you see a person wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them.

But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the Lord his God.

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God.’

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.