Bible Verses About Pride

¶ Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

¶ He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

¶ The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.

¶ Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

¶ Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?

¶ An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

¶ Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

¶ Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain.

¶ 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.