Bible Verses About Pride

In that day thou shalt not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me for then I will take away out of the midst of thee thy proud boasters, and thou shalt no more be lifted up because of my holy mountain.

For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not leave them root, nor branch.

It shall not be so among you: but whosoever is the greater among you, let him be your minister.

And he that will be first among you shall be your servant.

And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues,

And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.

Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, Christ.

He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.

All these evil things come from within and defile a man.

But it is not so among you: but whosoever will be greater shall be your minister.

And he said to them in his doctrine: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in long robes and to be saluted in the marketplace,

And to sit in the first chairs in the synagogues and to have the highest places at suppers:

He hath shewed might in his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the conceit of their heart.

He hath put down the mighty from their seat and hath exalted the humble.

And there entered a thought into them, which of them should be greater.

Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplace.

When thou art invited to a wedding, sit not down in the first place, lest perhaps one more honourable than thou be invited by him:

And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee: Give this man place. And then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place.

The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican.

I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.

I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.