Bible Verses About Pride

Better to be humble among the poor than share the spoil with the proud.

Those who love quarreling love giving offense; those who make their gates tall are courting disaster.

The wealth of the rich is his fortified city, like a high wall, in his own imagination.

Before being ruined, a person's heart is proud; before being honored, a person must be humble.

Most people announce that they show kindness, but who can find someone faithful [enough to do it]?

Haughty looks, a proud heart -what the wicked plow is sin.

"Scoffer" is what you call a proud, insolent person who acts with overweening conceit.

Like clouds and wind that bring no rain is he who boasts of gifts he never gives.

It isn't good to eat too much honey or to seek honor after honor.

but answer a fool as his folly deserves, so that he won't think he is wise.

Do you see someone who thinks himself wise? There is more hope for a fool than for him!

A lazy man is wiser in his own view than seven who can answer with sense.

Let someone else praise you, not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

The rich man is wise in his own view, but the poor who has discernment sees through him.

A grasping disposition stirs up strife, but he who trusts in ADONAI will prosper.

Scoffers can inflame a city, but the wise can calm the fury.

The proud will be humbled, but the humble will be honored.

There is a type of people clean in their own view, but not cleansed from their filth.

There is a type of people - how haughty their look! -utterly supercilious!

The proud looks of man will be humiliated; the arrogance of men will be bowed down; and when that day comes, ADONAI alone will be exalted.

Yes, ADONAI-Tzva'ot has a day in store for all who are proud and lofty, for all who are lifted high to be humiliated;

for all cedars of the L'vanon that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of the Bashan;

for all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up;

for every high tower, for every fortified wall;

for every "Tarshish" ship, for every luxurious vessel.