Bible Verses About Pride

When that day comes, you will not be ashamed of everything you have done, committing wrongs against me; for then I will remove from among you those of you who take joy in arrogance; you will no longer be full of pride on my holy mountain.

For the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the proud and evildoers will be stubble; the day that is coming will set them ablaze," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot, "and leave them neither root nor branch.

Among you, it must not be like that. On the contrary, whoever among you wants to be a leader must become your servant,

and whoever wants to be first must be your slave!

they love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues,

and they love being greeted deferentially in the marketplaces and being called `Rabbi.'

Nor are you to let yourselves be called `leaders,' because you have one Leader, and he is the Messiah!

The greatest among you must be your servant,

for whoever promotes himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be promoted.

"It is what comes out of a person," he went on, "that makes him unclean.

For from within, out of a person's heart, come forth wicked thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, arrogance, foolishness...

All these wicked things come from within, and they make a person unclean."

But among you, it must not be like that! On the contrary, whoever among you wants to be a leader must be your servant;

As he taught them, he said, "Watch out for the kind of Torah-teachers who like to walk around in robes and be greeted deferentially in the marketplaces,

who like to have the best seats in the synagogues and take the places of honor at banquets,

"He has performed mighty deeds with his arm, routed the secretly proud,

brought down rulers from their thrones, raised up the humble,

An argument arose among the talmidim as to which of them might be the greatest.

“Woe to you P’rushim, because you love the best seat in the synagogues and being greeted deferentially in the marketplaces!

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, don’t sit down in the best seat; because if there is someone more important than you who has been invited,

the person who invited both of you might come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.’ Then you will be humiliated as you go to take the least important place.

The Parush stood and prayed to himself, ‘O God! I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity — greedy, dishonest, immoral, or like this tax-collector!

I fast twice a week, I pay tithes on my entire income, . . . ’

I tell you, this man went down to his home right with God rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.”