Bible Verses About Pride

And, all the people hearing, he said to his disciples,

`Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers,

who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

and on a set day, Herod having arrayed himself in kingly apparel, and having sat down upon the tribunal, was making an oration unto them,

and the populace were shouting, `The voice of a god, and not of a man;'

and presently there smote him a messenger of the Lord, because he did not give the glory to God, and having been eaten of worms, he expired.

professing to be wise, they were made fools,

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

evil-speakers, God-haters, insulting, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become--

do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!

Thou wilt say, then, `The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;' right!

by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;

for if God the natural branches did not spare--lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret--that ye may not be wise in your own conceits--that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;

that no flesh may glory before Him;

Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age--let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?

Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,

we are fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we are ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;

and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,

Not good is your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?