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100 Bible Verses about Pride

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 14,944 helpful votes

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

Proverbs 29:23 ESV / 14,759 helpful votes

One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 14,234 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Proverbs 16:18 ESV / 12,891 helpful votes

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

James 4:6 ESV / 11,063 helpful votes

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Romans 12:16 ESV / 10,864 helpful votes

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.

Proverbs 16:5 ESV / 10,617 helpful votes

Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.

1 John 2:16 ESV / 9,601 helpful votes

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

Proverbs 18:12 ESV / 9,146 helpful votes

Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 7,906 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 7,368 helpful votes

By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

Proverbs 26:12 ESV / 7,324 helpful votes

Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

Psalm 10:4 ESV / 7,093 helpful votes

In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

Galatians 6:3 ESV / 6,816 helpful votes

For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Proverbs 27:2 ESV / 6,465 helpful votes

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Proverbs 21:4 ESV / 6,374 helpful votes

Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.

Jeremiah 9:23 ESV / 6,218 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,

2 Corinthians 10:17-18 ESV / 5,492 helpful votes

“Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

Proverbs 16:19 ESV / 5,462 helpful votes

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Daniel 4:37 ESV / 5,400 helpful votes

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 5,397 helpful votes

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 5,370 helpful votes

And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Romans 12:3 ESV / 5,305 helpful votes

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 5,210 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 5,207 helpful votes

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

James 4:10 ESV / 5,175 helpful votes

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Daniel 5:20 ESV / 5,084 helpful votes

But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.

Proverbs 21:24 ESV / 5,068 helpful votes

“Scoffer” is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.

Galatians 6:4 ESV / 4,978 helpful votes

But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.

Psalm 59:12 ESV / 4,932 helpful votes

For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,

1 Corinthians 1:28-29 ESV / 4,915 helpful votes

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

Psalm 138:6 ESV / 4,900 helpful votes

For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.

James 1:9-10 ESV / 4,816 helpful votes

Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.

Proverbs 25:27 ESV / 4,684 helpful votes

It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one's own glory.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 4,610 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Isaiah 23:9 ESV / 4,430 helpful votes

The Lord of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth.

Obadiah 1:3 ESV / 4,241 helpful votes

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 4,217 helpful votes

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV / 4,137 helpful votes

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Isaiah 2:12 ESV / 4,066 helpful votes

For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;

Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 4,001 helpful votes

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ ...

Leviticus 26:19 ESV / 3,959 helpful votes

And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.

Isaiah 2:11 ESV / 3,833 helpful votes

The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

Proverbs 15:25 ESV / 3,623 helpful votes

The Lord tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow's boundaries.

Revelation 3:17 ESV / 3,585 helpful votes

For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.

Isaiah 13:11 ESV / 3,570 helpful votes

I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.

Psalm 101:5 ESV / 3,520 helpful votes

Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.

2 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 3,458 helpful votes

So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.

Psalm 10:3-4 ESV / 3,424 helpful votes

For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord. In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 3,418 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 3,352 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Psalm 131:1 ESV / 3,323 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of David. O Lord, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.

Ezekiel 28:17 ESV / 3,265 helpful votes

Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.

1 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 3,232 helpful votes

For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3,226 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Genesis 3:5 ESV / 3,061 helpful votes

For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Psalm 73:6 ESV / 3,006 helpful votes

Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 2,995 helpful votes

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Proverbs 14:3 ESV / 2,936 helpful votes

By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.

2 Chronicles 26:16 ESV / 2,922 helpful votes

But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction. For he was unfaithful to the Lord his God and entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense.

Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 2,891 helpful votes

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

Isaiah 16:6 ESV / 2,884 helpful votes

We have heard of the pride of Moab— how proud he is!— of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence; in his idle boasting he is not right.

1 Corinthians 10:12 ESV / 2,880 helpful votes

Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

Psalm 10:2 ESV / 2,855 helpful votes

In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.

Psalm 31:23 ESV / 2,837 helpful votes

Love the Lord, all you his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.

2 Chronicles 32:25-26 ESV / 2,807 helpful votes

But Hezekiah did not make return according to the benefit done to him, for his heart was proud. Therefore wrath came upon him and Judah and Jerusalem. But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

Jeremiah 49:16 ESV / 2,766 helpful votes

The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle's, I will bring you down from there, declares the Lord.

Proverbs 28:25 ESV / 2,660 helpful votes

A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the Lord will be enriched.

John 2:1-16:33 ESV / 2,623 helpful votes

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” ...

1 Corinthians 10:17-18 ESV / 2,622 helpful votes

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. Consider the people of Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?

Proverbs 8:1-13:25 ESV / 2,609 helpful votes

Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: “To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man. O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense. ...

Luke 14:11 ESV / 2,551 helpful votes

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Deuteronomy 8:11-14 ESV / 2,513 helpful votes

“Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,

Isaiah 14:12-15 ESV / 2,469 helpful votes

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.

Proverbs 6:16-17 ESV / 2,379 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

2 Corinthians 10:18 ESV / 2,371 helpful votes

For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.

Job 41:34 ESV / 2,368 helpful votes

He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.”

1 Corinthians 8:2 ESV / 2,298 helpful votes

If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

Proverbs 3:34 ESV / 2,287 helpful votes

Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.

2 Corinthians 5:12 ESV / 2,252 helpful votes

We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart.

Deuteronomy 8:14 ESV / 2,209 helpful votes

Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,

Zephaniah 3:11 ESV / 2,195 helpful votes

“On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.

Isaiah 14:12-14 ESV / 2,055 helpful votes

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’

Proverbs 11:12 ESV / 2,050 helpful votes

Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 2,039 helpful votes

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ...

Proverbs 16:18-19 ESV / 1,984 helpful votes

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 1,980 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Psalm 56:2 ESV / 1,948 helpful votes

My enemies trample on me all day long, for many attack me proudly.

2 Corinthians 10:12 ESV / 1,870 helpful votes

Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.

1 John 2:16-17 ESV / 1,772 helpful votes

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Isaiah 10:12 ESV / 1,767 helpful votes

When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.

Isaiah 3:16-17 ESV / 1,765 helpful votes

The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet, therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.

Isaiah 4:2 ESV / 1,725 helpful votes

In that day the branch of the Lord shall be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land shall be the pride and honor of the survivors of Israel.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 1,684 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Revelation 18:7 ESV / 1,668 helpful votes

As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.’

1 Corinthians 10:2 ESV / 1,648 helpful votes

And all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

Nehemiah 9:16 ESV / 1,622 helpful votes

“But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.

1 Samuel 16:2 ESV / 1,584 helpful votes

And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’

Isaiah 14:14 ESV / 1,545 helpful votes

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’

Ezekiel 28:1-26 ESV / 1,500 helpful votes

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God: “Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,’ yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god— you are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you; by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries; by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth— ...

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