What Does the Bible Say About Pride?

Proverbs 16:5 ESV / 207 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 29:23 ESV / 170 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 163 helpful votes

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

Galatians 6:3 ESV / 149 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:18 ESV / 119 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 26:12 ESV / 109 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 27:2 ESV / 94 helpful votes

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

James 4:6 ESV / 92 helpful votes

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

1 John 2:16 ESV / 56 helpful votes

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

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 54 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 6:4 ESV / 43 helpful votes

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,

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 39 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.”

2 Corinthians 10:12 ESV / 37 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.

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 33 helpful votes

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Romans 12:16 ESV / 32 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 25:27 ESV / 28 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:2 ESV / 27 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.

Proverbs 11:12 ESV / 26 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 26 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 30:12 ESV / 25 helpful votes

There are those who are clean in their own eyes but are not washed of their filth.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 25:14 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of a gift he does not give.

2 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 23 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 10:31 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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

Romans 11:17-21 ESV / 22 helpful votes

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

Mark 7:21 ESV / 18 helpful votes

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Romans 15:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes

In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.

Jeremiah 9:23 ESV / 17 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,

Revelation 3:17 ESV / 16 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.

1 Corinthians 10:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

2 Corinthians 10:18 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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

Romans 1:22 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

1 Samuel 2:3-5 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble bind on strength. Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.

Ezekiel 28:17 ESV / 14 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.

Isaiah 5:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Man is humbled, and each one is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low.

Proverbs 15:12 ESV / 14 helpful votes

A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

2 Chronicles 26:16-19 ESV / 14 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. But Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty priests of the Lord who were men of valor, and they withstood King Uzziah and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have done wrong, and it will bring you no honor from the Lord God.” Then Uzziah was angry. Now he had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and when he became angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead in the presence of the priests in the house of the Lord, by the altar of incense.

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.

Proverbs 10:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.

Esther 6:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes

So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What should be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” And Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?”

1 Peter 5:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock.

1 Corinthians 10:30-33 ESV / 12 helpful votes

If I partake with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks? So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

Romans 12:3 ESV / 12 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.

Jeremiah 13:15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Hear and give ear; be not proud, for the Lord has spoken.

Proverbs 21:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes

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

Psalm 75:4-6 ESV / 12 helpful votes

I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn; do not lift up your horn on high, or speak with haughty neck.’” For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up,

Obadiah 1:3 ESV / 11 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 15:31 ESV / 10 helpful votes

I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!

1 Corinthians 14:38 ESV / 9 helpful votes

If anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.

1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

Luke 1:51 ESV / 9 helpful votes

He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;

Matthew 23:10-12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ. The greatest among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Proverbs 29:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Scoffers set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath.

Proverbs 28:25 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him:

Psalm 9:20 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Put them in fear, O Lord! Let the nations know that they are but men! Selah

Job 37:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Therefore men fear him; he does not regard any who are wise in their own conceit.”

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 8 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.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 5:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Daniel 4:30-34 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And the king answered and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?” While the words were still in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you, and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.” Immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles' feathers, and his nails were like birds' claws. At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;

Proverbs 21:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Psalm 101:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Revelation 18:7 ESV / 7 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.’

2 Timothy 3:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

1 Corinthians 8:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 4:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

1 Corinthians 4:6-8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another. 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? Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!

1 Corinthians 1:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes

So that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

Isaiah 3:16-26 ESV / 7 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. In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents; the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; ...

Proverbs 18:12 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 17:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Psalm 138:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Job 15:1-13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said: “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good? But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God. For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. ...

Job 13:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!

Revelation 3:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.

Romans 11:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Lest you be wise in your own sight, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Romans 1:30 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

Romans 1:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,

Luke 1:52 ESV / 6 helpful votes

He has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate;

Mark 12:38 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And in his teaching he said, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces

Matthew 23:6-8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others. But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.

Matthew 20:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes

It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,

Zephaniah 2:15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Jeremiah 48:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

We have heard of the pride of Moab— he is very proud— of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

Jeremiah 13:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Thus says the Lord: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 9:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”

Isaiah 28:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden underfoot;

Isaiah 5:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.

Isaiah 2:11-17 ESV / 6 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. 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; against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan; against all the lofty mountains, and against all the uplifted hills; against every high tower, and against every fortified wall; ...

Proverbs 15:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way; whoever hates reproof will die.

Proverbs 15:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

A fool despises his father's instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.

Proverbs 12:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Better to be lowly and have a servant than to play the great man and lack bread.

Proverbs 6:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Psalm 119:78 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Let the insolent be put to shame, because they have wronged me with falsehood; as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.

Psalm 119:69 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The insolent smear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;

Psalm 10:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”

Job 21:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes

When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.

2 Kings 14:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

You have indeed struck down Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”

2 Kings 5:11-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But Naaman was angry and went away, saying, “Behold, I thought that he would surely come out to me and stand and call upon the name of the Lord his God, and wave his hand over the place and cure the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage. But his servants came near and said to him, “My father, it is a great word the prophet has spoken to you; will you not do it? Has he actually said to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”

1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 5 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.

1 Timothy 6:3 ESV / 5 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,

Ephesians 4:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

1 Corinthians 8:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

John 2:15-17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.” His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

Luke 20:45-47 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

Luke 11:43 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

Zephaniah 2:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.

Obadiah 1:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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.

Ezekiel 30:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Thus says the Lord: Those who support Egypt shall fall, and her proud might shall come down; from Migdol to Syene they shall fall within her by the sword, declares the Lord God.

Jeremiah 13:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the Lord's flock has been taken captive.

Isaiah 24:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

On that day the Lord will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth.

Isaiah 23:9 ESV / 5 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.

Isaiah 23:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Is this your exultant city whose origin is from days of old, whose feet carried her to settle far away?

Isaiah 22:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock?

Isaiah 14:12-16 ESV / 5 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. Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,

Isaiah 9:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And all the people will know, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:

Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 28:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.

Proverbs 16:18-19 ESV / 5 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.

Proverbs 15:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Whoever ignores instruction despises himself, but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.

Proverbs 15:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from your commandments.

Psalm 73:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.

Psalm 52:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and sought refuge in his own destruction!”

Psalm 12:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?”

Job 21:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done?

Job 18:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Why are we counted as cattle? Why are we stupid in your sight?

Job 13:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

Job 12:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

Job 12:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

2 Chronicles 32:31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.

2 Chronicles 26:16 ESV / 5 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.

2 Chronicles 25:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

You say, ‘See, I have struck down Edom,’ and your heart has lifted you up in boastfulness. But now stay at home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?”

2 Chronicles 25:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And Joash the king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.

2 Kings 14:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.

1 Kings 20:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Let not him who straps on his armor boast himself as he who takes it off.’”

Judges 9:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

Leviticus 26:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Exodus 18:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because in this affair they dealt arrogantly with the people.”

James 3:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

1 Corinthians 5:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

1 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 4 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?

Luke 14:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.

Luke 14:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him,

Mark 12:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,

Mark 10:43 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,

Matthew 20:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And whoever would be first among you must be your slave,

Malachi 4:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.

Habakkuk 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!

Habakkuk 2:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples.”

Habakkuk 2:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.

Hosea 10:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephraim was a trained calf that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck; but I will put Ephraim to the yoke; Judah must plow; Jacob must harrow for himself.

Hosea 7:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him, for all this.

Hosea 5:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them.

Daniel 11:45 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea and the glorious holy mountain. Yet he shall come to his end, with none to help him.

Daniel 5:20 ESV / 4 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.

Daniel 4:37 ESV / 4 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.

Ezekiel 31:10-14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height, I will give it into the hand of a mighty one of the nations. He shall surely deal with it as its wickedness deserves. I have cast it out. Foreigners, the most ruthless of nations, have cut it down and left it. On the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land, and all the peoples of the earth have gone away from its shadow and left it. On its fallen trunk dwell all the birds of the heavens, and on its branches are all the beasts of the field. All this is in order that no trees by the waters may grow to towering height or set their tops among the clouds, and that no trees that drink water may reach up to them in height. For they are all given over to death, to the world below, among the children of man, with those who go down to the pit.

Ezekiel 28:2-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“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— therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you make your heart like the heart of a god, ...

Ezekiel 28:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“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—

Ezekiel 16:56 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride,

Jeremiah 50:32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The proud one shall stumble and fall, with none to raise him up, and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it will devour all that is around him.

Jeremiah 49:16 ESV / 4 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.

Jeremiah 49:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Why do you boast of your valleys, O faithless daughter, who trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come against me?’

Jeremiah 48:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The destroyer of Moab and his cities has come up, and the choicest of his young men have gone down to slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 48:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“How do you say, ‘We are heroes and mighty men of war’?

Jeremiah 48:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For, because you trusted in your works and your treasures, you also shall be taken; and Chemosh shall go into exile with his priests and his officials.

Isaiah 47:4-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Our Redeemer—the Lord of hosts is his name— is the Holy One of Israel. Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms. I was angry with my people; I profaned my heritage; I gave them into your hand; you showed them no mercy; on the aged you made your yoke exceedingly heavy. You said, “I shall be mistress forever,” so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end. Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”: ...

Isaiah 39:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Hezekiah welcomed them gladly. And he showed them his treasure house, the silver, the gold, the spices, the precious oil, his whole armory, all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his house or in all his realm that Hezekiah did not show them.

Isaiah 26:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For he has humbled the inhabitants of the height, the lofty city. He lays it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.

Isaiah 24:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the highest people of the earth languish.

Isaiah 22:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station.

Isaiah 16:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore let Moab wail for Moab, let everyone wail. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.

Isaiah 16:6 ESV / 4 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.

Isaiah 14:12-15 ESV / 4 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.

Isaiah 13:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.

Isaiah 10:5-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury! Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few; for he says: “Are not my commanders all kings? Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? ...

Proverbs 26:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who can answer sensibly.

Proverbs 26:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Psalm 119:70 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Their heart is unfeeling like fat, but I delight in your law.

Psalm 73:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Psalm 59:12 ESV / 3 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,

Psalm 49:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Their graves are their homes forever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they called lands by their own names.

Psalm 31:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Psalm 10:2-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised. 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.” His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them. He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.”

Job 40:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Pour out the overflowings of your anger, and look on everyone who is proud and abase him.

Job 11:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But a stupid man will get understanding when a wild donkey's colt is born a man!

Esther 7:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the king said, “Hang him on that.” So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.

Esther 5:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.”

Esther 5:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king.

Esther 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage to him, Haman was filled with fury.

Deuteronomy 8:14 ESV / 3 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,

Luke 18:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

200 Bible Verses about Pride