21 Bible Verses about The Proud Will Be Abased

Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.

And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round about him.

A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.

Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.

In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.

But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:

And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;

Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink!

The crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim will be crushed under foot;

But if you do not give ear to it, my soul will be weeping in secret for your pride; my eye will be weeping bitterly, streaming with water, because the Lord's flock has been taken away as prisoners.

Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

For this cause the Lord has said: Because he is tall, and has put his top among the clouds, and his heart is full of pride because he is so high, I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of the nations; he will certainly give him the reward of his sin, driving him out. And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among the nations, after cutting him off, have let him be: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have come down; his arms are broken by all the waterways of the land; all the peoples of the earth have gone from his shade, and have let him be.

In that day you will have no shame on account of all the things in which you did evil against me: for then I will take away from among you those who were lifted up in pride, and you will no longer be lifted up with pride in my holy mountain.

This is what the Lord has said: The supporters of Egypt will have a fall, and the pride of her power will come down: from Migdol to Syene they will be put to the sword in it, says the Lord.

I will let the swords of the strong be the cause of the fall of your people; all of them men to be feared among the nations: and they will make waste the pride of Egypt, and all its people will come to destruction.

And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through.

This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.

And they will go through the sea of Egypt, and all the deep waters of the Nile will become dry: and the pride of Assyria will be made low, and the power of Egypt will be taken away.

For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

And whoever makes himself high will be made low, and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.