19 Bible Verses about Do Not Be Proud

Hear ye, and give ear, be not lifted up; for Jehovah hath spoken.

For I say, through the grace which has been given to me, to every one that is among you, not to have high thoughts above what he should think; but to think so as to be wise, as God has dealt to each a measure of faith.

For if any man reputes himself to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself;

let nothing be in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;

Do not multiply your words of pride, let not vain-glory come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Lift not up your horn on high; speak not arrogantly with a stiff neck.

boast not against the branches; but if thou boast, it is not thou bearest the root, but the root thee.

Right: they have been broken out through unbelief, and thou standest through faith. Be not high-minded, but fear:

Now these things, brethren, I have transferred, in their application, to myself and Apollos, for your sakes, that ye may learn in us the lesson of not letting your thoughts go above what is written, that ye may not be puffed up one for such a one against another.

but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

Enjoin on those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust on the uncertainty of riches; but in the God who affords us all things richly for our enjoyment;

Blessed is the man that hath made Jehovah his confidence, and turneth not to the proud, and to such as turn aside to lies.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; better is a patient spirit than a proud spirit.

Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? As if the rod should wield them that lift it up; as if the staff should lift up him who is not wood!

not a novice, that he may not, being inflated, fall into the fault of the devil.

Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye walk haughtily: for it is an evil time.

When thou art invited by any one to a wedding, do not lay thyself down in the first place at table, lest perhaps a more honourable than thou be invited by him,

that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left; that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his sons, in the midst of Israel.

But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.