39 Bible Verses about Pride

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Proverbs 16:19

Good the cast down of spirit with the humble more than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Leviticus 26:19

And I broke the pride of your strength: and I gave your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

Isaiah 13:11

And I appointed evil over the habitable globe, and upon the unjust their iniquity; and I caused to cease the pride of the arrogant, and I will humble the pride of the terrible.

Isaiah 2:17

And the haughtiness of man was bowed down, and the height of man was humbled: and Jehovah alone was exalted in that day.

2 Corinthians 7:4

Much freedom of speech to me toward you; to me much boasting over you: I am filled with consolation, I superabound in joy in all your pressure.

1 Corinthians 15:31

In the day I die by: your boasting which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Hosea 7:10

And the pride of Israel was humbled in his face: and they turned not back to Jehovah their God. and sought him not in all this

Psalm 59:12

The sin of their mouth the word of their lips, and they shall be taken in their pride: and from cursing and from falsehood they will recount.

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Ambition » Connected with » Pride

Habakkuk 2:5

And also if a proud man transgressing by wine, and he will not rest; who enlarged his soul as hades, and he as death, and he will not be satisfied, and he will gather to him all nations, and he will collect to him all peoples.

Anger » Connected with » Pride

Condemnation » Increased by » Pride

Jewish » Pride

Luke 3:8

Do ye therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to, say in yourselves, We have a father A braham : for I say to you, That God is able to raise children to Abraham of these stones.

John 8:33

They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never served any; how sayest thou, That ye shall be free?

John 8:39

They answered and said to him, Abraham is our Father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye had done Abraham's works.

John 9:28

Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.

Romans 2:19

And art persuaded thou thyself to be a guide of the blind, a light of them in darkness,

Parents » Prayers » Pride

Matthew 20:21

And he said to her, What wilt thou? She says to him, Say that these my two sons might sit, the one on thy right hand, and one on thy left, in thy kingdom.

Esther 5:11

And Haman will recount to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all how the king magnified him, and how he lifted him up over the chiefs and servants of the king.

Persecution » Originates in » Pride

Pride » Examples of » Haman

Isaiah 14:13

And thou saidst in thy heart, I will go up to the heavens; from above to the stars of God I will lift up my throne, and I will sit upon the mountain of appointment in the thighs of the north.

Esther 3:5

And Haman will see that Mordecai bowed not, and not worshiping to him, and Haman will be filled with wrath.

Isaiah 47:10

And thou wilt trust in thy wickedness: thou saidst, None saw me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge it caused thee to turn away; and thou wilt say in thy heart, I, and none yet besides me.

Ezekiel 28:2

Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart was lifted up, and thou wilt say, I am God, I sat upon the seat of God in the heart of the seas; and thou art man and not God, and thou wilt give thy heart as the heart of God.

Ezekiel 31:10

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou wert lifted up in height, and he will give his foliage between the thick boughs, and his heart was lifted up in his height;

More verses: Isaiah 10:13

Pride » Examples of » Spiritual, examples of

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican.

John 9:41

We are not also blind? Jesus said to them If ye were blind, ye had not sinned: and now ye say, That we see; therefore your sin remains.

Job 33:9

I am clean without transgression; I am fair, and no iniquity to me.

1 Corinthians 4:18

And as my not coming to you, some were puffed up.

Pride » Examples of » Jewish pride, as the chosen nation

Luke 3:8

Do ye therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to, say in yourselves, We have a father A braham : for I say to you, That God is able to raise children to Abraham of these stones.

John 8:33

They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never served any; how sayest thou, That ye shall be free?

John 8:39

They answered and said to him, Abraham is our Father. Jesus says to them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye had done Abraham's works.

John 9:28

Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.

Romans 2:19

And art persuaded thou thyself to be a guide of the blind, a light of them in darkness,

Pride » Forbidden

1 Samuel 2:3

Ye shall not enlarge; will ye sproud, proud? shall the impatient thing come forth from your mouth for Jehovah a God of knowledge, and doings were not made equal.

Pride » Exemplified

Daniel 4:30

The king answered and said, Is not this great Babel, that I built it for the house of the kingdom by the strength of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

Isaiah 28:1

O to the crown of pride, wo to the hirelings of Ephraim! a flower falling away is the glory of his beauty which is upon the head of the valley of fatness of those smitten with wine.

Hosea 5:5

And the pride of Israel was humbled in his face, and Israel and Ephraim shall be weak in their iniquity; Judah also being weak with them.

Hosea 5:9

Ephraim shall be for desolation in the day of chastisement: in the tribes of Israel I made known the faithful thing.

Pride » Is followed by » Destruction

Pride » Instances of » Hezekiah, in displaying his resources

2 Chronicles 32:31

Thus in the chiefs of Babel interceding, sending to him to seek out the sign which was in the land, God left him, to try him, to know all in his heart

2 Kings 20:13

And Hezekiah will hear to them, and caused them to see all the house of his spices, the silver and the gold, and the spices and the good oil, and all the house of his vessels, and all which was found in his treasures: and there was not a word which Hezekiah caused them not to see in his house, and in all his dominion.

Isaiah 39:2

And Hezekiah rejoiced over them, and he will cause them to see the house of the spices, the silver and the gold and the aromatics, and the good oil, and all the house of his vessels: and all which was found in his treasures, there was not a word which Hezekiah caused them not to see, in his house and in all his dominions.

Pride » Leads men to » Contention

Pride » Often originates in » Possession of power

Leviticus 26:19

And I broke the pride of your strength: and I gave your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

Ezekiel 30:6

Thus said Jehovah: and they upholding Egypt fell,, and the pride of her strength came down: from the tower Seveneh shall they fall in her by the sword, says the Lord Jehovah.

Pride » Hateful to God

Proverbs 6:16

These six Jehovah hated, and seven an abomination of his soul:

Pride » Is followed by » Debasement

Isaiah 28:3

With the feet shall the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, be trodden down.

Pride » Self-deception

Obadiah 1:3

The pride of thy heart deceived thee, dwelling in the refuges of the rock, the height his seat; he said in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the earth?

Jeremiah 49:16

Thy terror deceived thee, the pride of thy heart, thou dwelling in the asylums of the rock, holding the height of the hill: if thou shalt make thy nest high as the eagle, from thence will I bring thee down, says Jehovah.

Pride » They who are guilty of, shall be » Subdued

Exodus 18:11

Now I knew that Jehovah is great above all gods; for in the word they acted proudly over them.

Isaiah 13:11

And I appointed evil over the habitable globe, and upon the unjust their iniquity; and I caused to cease the pride of the arrogant, and I will humble the pride of the terrible.

Pride » They who are guilty of, shall be » Abased

Daniel 4:37

Now I Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and honor to the king of the heavens, that all his works are truth, and his paths judgment: and that they going about in pride, he being able to bring low.

Pride » Instances of » Haman

Esther 3:5

And Haman will see that Mordecai bowed not, and not worshiping to him, and Haman will be filled with wrath.

Esther 7:10

And they will hang Haman upon the tree that he preps for Mordecai. And the wrath of the king subsided.

Esther 5:11

And Haman will recount to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all how the king magnified him, and how he lifted him up over the chiefs and servants of the king.

Esther 5:13

And all this was not an equivalent to me in all the time which I see Mordecai the Jew sitting in the king's gate.

Esther 6:6

And Haman will come in. And the king will say to him, What to be done for the man whom the king delighted in his honor? And Haman will say in his heart, To whom will the king delight to do honor more abundantly than me?

Pride » They who are guilty of, shall be » Brought low

Isaiah 2:12

For the day to Jehovah of armies is upon all the haughty and the high, and upon all lifted up; and he was humbled:

Psalm 18:27

Thou wilt save the humble people, and thou wilt humble the eyes of the lifted up.

Pride » Examples of » Belshazzar

Daniel 5:23

And against the Lord of the heavens thou didst lift up thyself; and for the vessels of his house they brought before thee, and thou and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, drinking wine in them; and to the gods of silver and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, who see not, and hear not, and know not, thou didst praise: and to the God whom thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways to him, thou didst not honor.

Obadiah 1:3

The pride of thy heart deceived thee, dwelling in the refuges of the rock, the height his seat; he said in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the earth?

Pride » Woe to

Isaiah 28:1

O to the crown of pride, wo to the hirelings of Ephraim! a flower falling away is the glory of his beauty which is upon the head of the valley of fatness of those smitten with wine.

Isaiah 28:3

With the feet shall the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, be trodden down.

Pride » A hindrance to seeking God

Hosea 7:10

And the pride of Israel was humbled in his face: and they turned not back to Jehovah their God. and sought him not in all this

Pride » Defiles a man

Mark 7:22

Thefts, overreaching, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, defamation, pride, foolishness:

Mark 7:20

And he said, That going out of a man, that pollutes a man.

Pride » Exemplified » hezekiah

2 Chronicles 32:25

And not according to the doing to him did Hezekiah turn back, for his heart was lifted up: and there will be wrath upon him, and upon Judah and upon Jerusalem.

Pride » Examples of » hezekiah

2 Chronicles 32:25

And not according to the doing to him did Hezekiah turn back, for his heart was lifted up: and there will be wrath upon him, and upon Judah and upon Jerusalem.

Pride » Examples of » Uzziah

2 Chronicles 26:16

And in his being strong his heart was lifted up even to destruction: for he will transgress against Jehovah his God, and come in to the temple of Jehovah to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

Pride » They who are guilty of, shall be » Punished

Zephaniah 2:10-11

This to them for their pride, for they reproached and they will magnify against the people of Jehovah of armies. God being terrible to them, for he made lean all the gods of the earth; and they shall worship to him each from his place, all the isles of the nations.

Pride » Often originates in » Unsanctified knowledge

1 Corinthians 8:1

And concerning sacrifice to idols, we know, (for we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, and love builds the house.

Pride » Instances of » Nebuchadnezzar

Daniel 4:30-34

The king answered and said, Is not this great Babel, that I built it for the house of the kingdom by the strength of my power, and for the honor of my majesty? Yet the word in the king's mouth, a voice from the heavens fell to thee, being said, O Nebuchadnezzar the king, the kingdom passed away from thee: And from men driving thee out, and with beasts of the open field thy dwelling: and they shall feed to thee the grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee till that thou shalt know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and to whom he will, he will give it read more.
In the same moment the word was added upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven out from men, and he shall eat the green herb as oxen, and from the dew of the heavens his body shall be wet till that his hair was increased as eagles, and his nails as birds'. And at the end of the days, I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes to the heavens, and my knowledge will turn back to me, and I praised to the Most High, and to him living forever, I praised and honored, whose dominion an eternal dominion, and his kingdom with generation and generation.

Pride » Hateful to Christ

Proverbs 8:12-13

I wisdom dwelt with prudence, and I shall find the knowledge of machinations. The fear of Jehovah hates evil: pride and haughtiness, and the evil way, and the mouth of perverseness I hated.

Pride » Exemplified » Laodiceans

Pride » Characteristic of » False teachers

1 Timothy 6:3-4

If any teach otherwise, and come not up to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine according to devotion; He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures,

Pride » Often originates in » Religious privileges

Zephaniah 3:11

In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doing which thou didst transgress against me: for then will I remove from the midst of thee those exulting in thy pride, and thou shalt no more add to be elevated in my holy mountain.

Pride » Characteristic of » The wicked

Habakkuk 2:4-5

Behold, his soul being inflated in him, was not straight: and the just one shall live by his faithfulness. And also if a proud man transgressing by wine, and he will not rest; who enlarged his soul as hades, and he as death, and he will not be satisfied, and he will gather to him all nations, and he will collect to him all peoples.

Pride » Exemplified » Ahithophel

2 Samuel 17:23

And Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not done, and he will saddle the ass and rise and go to his house to his city, and command his house, and he will strangle himself and die. And he will be buried in the grave of his father.

Pride » Exemplified » Belshazzar

Daniel 5:22-23

And thou his son, O Belshazzar, didst not humble thy heart because that thou knewest all this; And against the Lord of the heavens thou didst lift up thyself; and for the vessels of his house they brought before thee, and thou and thy nobles, and thy wives, and thy concubines, drinking wine in them; and to the gods of silver and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, who see not, and hear not, and know not, thou didst praise: and to the God whom thy breath in his hand, and all thy ways to him, thou didst not honor.

Pride » Leads men to » Wrath

Pride » Saints » Mourn over, in others

Jeremiah 13:17

And if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in hiding places from the face of pride, and mine eye weeping shall weep and bring down tears, because the flock of Jehovah was taken captive.

Pride » A hindrance to improvement

Pride » Exhortation against

Jeremiah 13:15

Hear ye, and give ear; ye shall not be proud: for Jehovah spake.

Pride » They who are guilty of, shall be » Marred

Jeremiah 13:9

Thus said Jehovah, According to this I will corrupt the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Pride » Often originates in » Possession of wealth

2 Kings 20:13

And Hezekiah will hear to them, and caused them to see all the house of his spices, the silver and the gold, and the spices and the good oil, and all the house of his vessels, and all which was found in his treasures: and there was not a word which Hezekiah caused them not to see in his house, and in all his dominion.

Pride » Often originates in » Inexperience

Pride » Often originates in » Self-righteousness

Luke 18:11-12

The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican. I fast twice of the Sabbath; I pay tithes of all I possess.

Pride » Characteristic of » The Devil

Pride » Is followed by » Shame

Pride » Leads men to » Contempt and rejection of God's word and ministers

Jeremiah 43:2

And Azariah son of Hoshaiah will say, and Johanan son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsehood: Jehovah our God sent thee not to say, Ye shall not go to Egypt to sojourn there:

Pride » Exemplified » Scribes

Mark 12:38-39

And he said to them in his teaching, Look from the scribes, wishing to walk in robes, and greetings in market-places, And first seats in synagogues, and first place at tables in first meals:

Pride » Exemplified » Pharaoh

Nehemiah 9:10

And thou wilt give signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants, and upon all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they acted proudly against them. And thou wilt make to thee a name as this day.

Pride » Exemplified » Herod

Acts 12:21-23

And upon a fixed day, Herod, having put on royal apparel, and having sat upon the judgment seat, harangued them. And the people called aloud, The voice of God, and not of man. And immediately the messenger of the Lord struck him, because he gave not the glory to God: and eaten by worms, he expired.

Pride » Exemplified » Judah

Jeremiah 13:9

Thus said Jehovah, According to this I will corrupt the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Pride » Shall abound in the last days

Pride » Is sin

Pride » Instances of » Uzziah

2 Chronicles 26:16-19

And in his being strong his heart was lifted up even to destruction: for he will transgress against Jehovah his God, and come in to the temple of Jehovah to burn incense upon the altar of incense. And Azariah the priest will go in after him, and with him eighty priests to Jehovah, sons of strength. And they will stand against Uzziah the king, and say to him, Not to thee, Uzziah, to burn incense to Jehovah, but to the priests, the sons of Aaron, being consecrated to burn incense: go forth from the holy place, for thou didst trespass; and not to thee for honor from Jehovah God. read more.
And Uzziah will he angry, and in his hand a censer to burn incense: and in his being angry with the priests, the leprosy rose in his forehead before the priests in the house of Jehovah, from above to the altar of incense.

Pride » Examples of » Naaman

2 Kings 5:11

And Naaman will be angry, and go, and say, Behold, I said coming forth, he will come forth to me, and stand and call in the name of Jehovah his God and wave his hand up and down to the place, and he will gather him being leprous.

Pride » Comes from the heart

Mark 7:21-23

For within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil reflections, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, overreaching, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, defamation, pride, foolishness: All these evils go out from within, and pollute a man.

Pride » They who are guilty of, shall be » Brought into contempt

Isaiah 23:9

Jehovah of armies purposed it to profane the pride of all glory, to make light all the honored of the earth.

Pride » They who are guilty of, shall be » Recompensed

Pride » Characteristic of » The world

Pride » Instances of » Naaman, refusing to wash in the jordan river

2 Kings 5:11-13

And Naaman will be angry, and go, and say, Behold, I said coming forth, he will come forth to me, and stand and call in the name of Jehovah his God and wave his hand up and down to the place, and he will gather him being leprous. Is not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, good above all the waters of Israel? and shall I not wash in them And be cleansed? And he will turn and go in wrath. And his servants will come near and speak to him, and say, My father, spake the prophet a great word to thee, wilt thou not do? and much more he said to thee, Wash and be cleansed,

Pride » Exemplified » Moab

Isaiah 16:6

We heard the pride of Moab; he was greatly elated; his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath; not so his empty talk

Pride » Exemplified » Tyre

Isaiah 23:9

Jehovah of armies purposed it to profane the pride of all glory, to make light all the honored of the earth.

Pride » Exemplified » Edom

Obadiah 1:3

The pride of thy heart deceived thee, dwelling in the refuges of the rock, the height his seat; he said in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the earth?

Pride » Examples of » Nebuchadnezzar

Daniel 4:30

The king answered and said, Is not this great Babel, that I built it for the house of the kingdom by the strength of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?

Pride » Saints » Hate, in others

Psalm 101:5

Slandering his neighbor in secret, him will I cut off: him being lofty of eyes and broad of heart, with him I will not eat

Pride » Saints » Give not way to

Psalm 131:1

Song of ascensions to David. O Jehovah, my heart was not lifted up, and mine eyes were not exalted, and I went not in great things and in wonders above me.

Pride » Hardens the mind

Pride » Leads men to » A persecuting spirit

Pride » Exemplified » Haman

Esther 3:5

And Haman will see that Mordecai bowed not, and not worshiping to him, and Haman will be filled with wrath.

Pride » Examples of » Pharaoh

Pride » Saints » Respect not, in others

Pride » The wicked encompassed with

Pride » They who are guilty of, shall be » Scattered

Pride » They who are guilty of, shall be » Resisted

Pride » Instances of » Ahithophel

2 Samuel 17:23

And Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not done, and he will saddle the ass and rise and go to his house to his city, and command his house, and he will strangle himself and die. And he will be buried in the grave of his father.

Pride » Instances of » Kings of tyre

Ezekiel 28:2

Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart was lifted up, and thou wilt say, I am God, I sat upon the seat of God in the heart of the seas; and thou art man and not God, and thou wilt give thy heart as the heart of God.

Punishment of the The Wicked » On account of their » Pride

Isaiah 10:12

And it was when the Lord will complete all his work upon mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will review upon the fruit of the great heart of the king of Assur and upon the glory of his eyes lifted up.

Isaiah 24:21

And it was in that day Jehovah shall review upon the army of the height upon the height, and upon the kings of the earth upon the earth.

Riches » Often lead to » Pride

Ezekiel 28:5

By the multitude of thy wisdom, by thy traffic thou didst multiply thy wealth, and thine heart will be lifted up in thy wealth.

Self-will » Proceeds from » Pride

Nehemiah 9:29

And thou wilt testify against them to turn them back to thy law: and they acted proudly and heard not to thy commands, and in thy judgments they sinned in them; (which a man shall do and he lived in them) and they will give a shoulder turning aside, and they hardened their neck and heard not

Nehemiah 9:16

And they and our fathers acted proudly, and they will harden their neck, and will not hear to thy commands,

Self-will and stubbornness » Proceed from » Pride

Nehemiah 9:29

And thou wilt testify against them to turn them back to thy law: and they acted proudly and heard not to thy commands, and in thy judgments they sinned in them; (which a man shall do and he lived in them) and they will give a shoulder turning aside, and they hardened their neck and heard not

Nehemiah 9:16

And they and our fathers acted proudly, and they will harden their neck, and will not hear to thy commands,

Spiritual » Preparation steps required in » Pride

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican.

John 9:41

We are not also blind? Jesus said to them If ye were blind, ye had not sinned: and now ye say, That we see; therefore your sin remains.

Job 33:9

I am clean without transgression; I am fair, and no iniquity to me.

1 Corinthians 4:18

And as my not coming to you, some were puffed up.

Strife » Excited by » Pride

Strife » Causes of » Pride

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Attitudes Of Pride

Deuteronomy 8:14

And thy heart was lifted up and thou didst forget Jehovah thy God bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of servants;

Kings And Pride

Proverbs 14:28

In a multitude of people the king's decoration: and in the cessation of the people the destruction of the prince.

Pride, Origin

Luke 18:11-12

The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican.

Pride, Results In

Jeremiah 43:2

And Azariah son of Hoshaiah will say, and Johanan son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsehood: Jehovah our God sent thee not to say, Ye shall not go to Egypt to sojourn there:

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