Bible Verses About Pride

Indeed, I waited while you spoke; I listened to your reasoning; as you searched for words,

I paid you full attention. But no one proved Job wrong; not one of you rebutted his arguments.

So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’

Therefore, men fear Him, for He is not partial to the wise in heart.”

Lay terror upon them, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.

In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.

He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.

He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”

He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.

They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”

For You save an afflicted people, but You humble those with haughty eyes.

Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.

Blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.

Their graves are their eternal homes— their dwellings for endless generations— even though their lands were their namesakes.

“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”

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

They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.

I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.

Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”

For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,

Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.