22 Bible Verses about God Opposes The Proud
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For though the LORD is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
"Behold, I am against you, you proud one," says the Lord, the LORD of hosts; for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.
"The Lord GOD has sworn by himself," says the LORD, the God of Hosts: "I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
But He gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, towards one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
For there will be a day of the LORD of hosts for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:
The LORD of hosts has planned it, to defile all the pride of glory, to shame all the honored of the earth.
You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the proud, that you may bring them down.
Oh love the LORD, all you his holy ones. The LORD preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble."
He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pride of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be profaned.
For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
The LORD will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow's borders intact.
Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.
"Thus says the LORD, 'In this way I will mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can't keep his soul alive.