19 Bible Verses about Do Not Be Proud

Hear, and give ear -- be not haughty, For Jehovah hath spoken.

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,

for if any one doth think himself to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --

Ye multiply not -- ye speak haughtily -- The old saying goeth out from your mouth, For a God of knowledge is Jehovah, And by Him actions are weighed.

Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.)

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

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

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,

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --

O the happiness of the man Who hath made Jehovah his trust, And hath not turned unto the proud, And those turning aside to lies.

Better is the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better is the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit.

-- Doth the axe glorify itself Against him who is hewing with it? Doth the saw magnify itself Against him who is shaking it? As a rod waving those lifting it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!

not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall to a judgment of the devil;

Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am devising against this family evil, From which ye do not remove your necks, Nor walk loftily, for a time of evil it is.

'When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him,

so that his heart is not high above his brethren, and so as not to turn aside from the command, right or left, so that he prolongeth days over his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.

and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;