Bible Verses About Pride: General references

¶ It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

¶ Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

¶ The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

¶ Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

¶ The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

¶ He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.

¶ Scornful men bring a city into a snare: but wise men turn away wrath.

¶ A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,

And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

¶ Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.

In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,

The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

The rings, and nose jewels,

The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,