6 Bible Verses about Conceit, Description Of

If a man fancies himself to be somebody when he is really nobody he is deceiving himself.

If any one teaches heterodoxy, and refuses to consent to the wholesome words of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teachings of religion, he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions,

He must not be a recent convert, lest he be blinded with pride, and incur the doom of the devil.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the proud glory of life, is not from the Father, but from the world;

So then let him who imagines that he is standing so securely beware lest he fall.

For I would not, my brothers, have you ignorant of this hidden truth, for fear that you become wise in your own conceits. that a hardening in part has befallen Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles is come in.