Bible Verses About Pride

Now about food sacrificed to idols: we know that, as you say, “We all have knowledge.” Yes, that is so, but “knowledge” puffs a person up with pride; whereas love builds up.

The person who thinks he “knows” something doesn’t yet know in the way he ought to know.

Therefore, let anyone who thinks he is standing up be careful not to fall!

Love is patient and kind, not jealous, not boastful,

But if someone doesn’t recognize this, then let him remain unrecognized.

and every arrogance that raises itself up against the knowledge of God; we take every thought captive and make it obey the Messiah.

We don’t dare class or compare ourselves with some of the people who advertise themselves. In measuring themselves against each other and comparing themselves with each other, they are simply stupid.

because it is not the one who recommends himself who is worthy of approval, but the one whom the Lord recommends.

Therefore, to keep me from becoming overly proud, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger from the Adversary to pound away at me, so that I wouldn’t grow conceited.

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

Therefore I say this — indeed, in union with the Lord I insist on it: do not live any longer as the pagans live, with their sterile ways of thinking.

Do nothing out of rivalry or vanity; but, in humility, regard each other as better than yourselves —

Likewise, the women, when they pray, should be dressed modestly and sensibly in respectable attire, not with elaborate hairstyles and gold jewelry, or pearls, or expensive clothes.

He must not be a new believer, because he might become puffed up with pride and thus fall under the same judgment as did the Adversary.

If anyone teaches differently and does not agree to the sound precepts of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah and to the doctrine that is in keeping with godliness,

he is swollen with conceit and understands nothing. Instead, he has a morbid desire for controversies and word-battles, out of which come jealousy, dissension, insults, evil suspicions,

As for those who do have riches in this present world, charge them not to be proud and not to let their hopes rest on the uncertainties of riches but to rest their hopes on God, who richly provides us with all things for our enjoyment.

People will be self-loving, money-loving, proud, arrogant, insulting, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

traitorous, headstrong, swollen with conceit, loving pleasure rather than God,

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, since you know that we will be judged more severely.

But the grace he gives is greater, which is why it says, “God opposes the arrogant, but to the humble he gives grace.”

also not as machers domineering over those in your care, but as people who become examples to the flock.

Likewise, you who are less experienced, submit to leaders. Further, all of you should clothe yourselves in humility toward one another, because God opposes the arrogant, but to the humble he gives grace.

because all the things of the world — the desires of the old nature, the desires of the eyes, and the pretensions of life — are not from the Father but from the world.

For you keep saying, ‘I am rich, I have gotten rich, I don’t need a thing!’ You don’t know that you are the one who is wretched, pitiable, poor, blind and naked!