14 Bible Verses about The Proud

Lo, a presumptuous one! Not upright is his soul within him, And the righteous by his stedfastness liveth.

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.

Ashamed are the proud, For with falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate in Thy precepts.

The proud have digged for me pits, That are not according to Thy law.

Greatly hath our soul been filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!

For high is Jehovah, and the lowly He seeth, And the haughty from afar He knoweth.

And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'

For, lo, the day hath come, burning as a furnace, And all the proud, and every wicked doer, have been stubble, And burnt them hath the day that came, Said Jehovah of Hosts, That there is not left to them root or branch,

he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'