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100 Bible Verses about The Spirit Of Pride

James 4:6 ESV / 235 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:18 ESV / 228 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 29:23 ESV / 222 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:5 ESV / 222 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 213 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 11:2 ESV / 206 helpful votes

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

Psalm 10:4 ESV / 166 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 21:4 ESV / 162 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 159 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:16 ESV / 158 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 18:12 ESV / 145 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:19 ESV / 140 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:2 ESV / 129 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.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 127 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:3 ESV / 124 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.

Proverbs 16:18-19 ESV / 122 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.

1 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 121 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?

Proverbs 26:12 ESV / 117 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 138:6 ESV / 111 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:16 ESV / 110 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.

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 106 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.

Galatians 6:3 ESV / 100 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 21:24 ESV / 100 helpful votes

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

Daniel 5:20 ESV / 99 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.

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 98 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.”

Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 94 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!’ ...

Psalm 59:12 ESV / 94 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,

James 4:10 ESV / 91 helpful votes

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

Daniel 4:37 ESV / 89 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.

Proverbs 14:3 ESV / 87 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 27:2 ESV / 86 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 25:27 ESV / 86 helpful votes

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

Galatians 6:4 ESV / 85 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.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 81 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 75 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.

Matthew 5:3 ESV / 73 helpful votes

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 72 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.

Leviticus 26:19 ESV / 72 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 23:9 ESV / 70 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.

Jeremiah 9:23 ESV / 69 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,

Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV / 69 helpful votes

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

James 4:7 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Psalm 101:5 ESV / 66 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 28:25 ESV / 65 helpful votes

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

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 64 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Isaiah 57:15 ESV / 61 helpful votes

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 2:11 ESV / 61 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.

Jeremiah 49:16 ESV / 60 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.

Job 41:34 ESV / 60 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 22:4 ESV / 59 helpful votes

The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.

Psalm 10:3-4 ESV / 59 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.”

Romans 8:7 ESV / 56 helpful votes

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 55 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.

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 53 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.”

Isaiah 13:11 ESV / 53 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.

Ezekiel 28:17 ESV / 51 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.

Proverbs 15:25 ESV / 51 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 50 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Isaiah 14:12-15 ESV / 50 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 15:33 ESV / 50 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.

1 Corinthians 10:12 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 48 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.

1 Corinthians 8:2 ESV / 48 helpful votes

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

Matthew 23:12 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

Psalm 10:2 ESV / 46 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 5:5-6 ESV / 45 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.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,

James 4:4 ESV / 45 helpful votes

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Obadiah 1:3 ESV / 45 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?”

Isaiah 2:12 ESV / 45 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;

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 45 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 5:12 ESV / 43 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.

Isaiah 16:6 ESV / 43 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.

Galatians 5:17 ESV / 42 helpful votes

For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 42 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Mark 7:21-23 ESV / 42 helpful votes

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.”

Jeremiah 43:2 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The Lord our God did not send you to say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to live there,’

John 3:16-17 ESV / 41 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 41 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, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

1 Peter 5:6 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,

Galatians 6:1-3 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 39 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

2 Corinthians 10:17-18 ESV / 39 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.

Obadiah 1:3-4 ESV / 39 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?” Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the Lord.

1 John 2:15 ESV / 38 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.

James 1:9-10 ESV / 38 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.

1 Corinthians 1:28-29 ESV / 38 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.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 38 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 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.

1 John 2:4 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

1 Timothy 6:3-5 ESV / 37 helpful votes

If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

Proverbs 6:3 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.

2 Chronicles 32:25-26 ESV / 37 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.

1 Corinthians 8:1 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.

Deuteronomy 8:14 ESV / 36 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,

Isaiah 3:16-17 ESV / 35 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.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 34 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Proverbs 17:19 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Whoever loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction.

Romans 8:15 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Proverbs 3:34 ESV / 33 helpful votes

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

Genesis 3:5 ESV / 32 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.”

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