Bible Verses About Pride

And in the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples:

Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes and love salutations in the market place and the first chairs in the synagogues and the chief rooms at feasts:

Who devour the houses of widows, feigning long prayer. These shall receive greater damnation.

And upon a day appointed, Herod being arrayed in kingly apparel, sat in the judgment seat and made an oration to them.

And the people made acclamation, saying: It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.

And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given the honour to God: and, being eaten up by worms, he gave up the ghost.

For, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers,

Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

And if some of the branches be broken and thou, being a wild olive, art ingrafted in them and art made partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree:

Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root: but the root thee.

Thou wilt say then: The branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.

Well: because of unbelief they were broken off. But thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear.

For if God hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps also he spare not thee.

For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, of this mystery (lest you should be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in part has happened in Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles should come in.

For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among you, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise unto sobriety and according as God hath divided to every one the measure of faith.

Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

That no flesh should glory in his sight.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seem to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

But these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollo, for your sakes: that in us you may learn that one be not puffed up against the other for another, above that which is written.

For who distinguisheth thee? Or what hast thou that thou hast not received, and if thou hast received, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

You are now full: you are now become rich: you reign without us; and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

We are fools for Christs sake, but you are wise in Christ: we are weak, but you are strong: you are honourable, but we without honour.

And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned: that he might be taken away from among you that hath done this thing.

Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump?