29 Bible Verses about Proud People

Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."

So I spoke to you, and you didn't listen; but you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh, and were presumptuous, and went up into the hill country.

"But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn't listen to your commandments,

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?'"

Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,

They were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw [good].

We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.

We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn't accept what we say.

You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

Don't let the foot of pride come against me. Don't let the hand of the wicked drive me away.

For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,

Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart as the heart of God --

You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.

Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify himself above all.

Through his policy he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and in [their] security shall he destroy many: he shall also stand up against the prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand.

The multitude shall be lifted up, and his heart shall be exalted; and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.

The king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods; and he shall prosper until the indignation be accomplished; for that which is determined shall be done.

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came."

Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her all around; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven't returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.