32 Bible Verses about Arrogance, Characterizes The Wicked

For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetings, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, reviling, pride, foolishness.

There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

In the pride of the wicked man the poor man is hotly pursued. Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived. For the wicked man boasts of his heart's desire. And the greedy man renounces, [yea], despises LORD. The wicked man, in the pride of his countenance, [says], He will not require [it]. All his thoughts are, There is no God.read more.
His ways are profane at all times. Thy judgments are far above out of his sight. As for all his adversaries, he puffs at them. He says in his heart, I shall not be moved. To all generations I shall not be in adversity. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. In the covert places he murders the innocent man. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man. He lurks in secret as a lion in his covert. He lays in wait to catch the poor man. He catches the poor man when he draws him in his net. He crouches, he bows down, and helpless men fall by his strong men. He says in his heart, God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.

For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For there are no pangs in their death, but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as [other] men, nor are they plagued like [other] men.read more.
Therefore pride is as a chain around their neck. Violence covers them as a garment. Their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than heart could wish. They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression. They speak loftily. They have set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth. Therefore his people return here, and waters of a full [cup] are drained by them. And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High? Behold, these are the wicked, and those who always prosper. They have possessed wealth.

O God, the proud have risen up against me, and a company of violent men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before them.

LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? They prate, they speak arrogantly. All the workers of iniquity boast themselves. They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thy heritage.read more.
They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless. And they say, LORD will not see, nor will the God of Jacob consider.

And now we call the proud happy. Yea, those who work wickedness are built up. Yea, they challenge God, and escape.

And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit; having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents;read more.
without understanding, untrustworthy, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.

And all the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart, The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone, the sycamores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.

At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon. The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

In an amount she glorified herself and lived wantonly, give her so much torment and grief, because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will, no, not see grief.

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall be satisfied upon them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him who girds on [his armor] boast himself as he who puts it off.

Thou have indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up. Glory by it, and abide at home, for why should thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou should fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

Thou say, Lo, I have smitten Edom. And thy heart lifts thee up to boast. Remain now at home. Why should thou meddle to [thy] hurt, that thou should fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and we are at agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through it shall not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hid ourselves unde

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters, and she did not strengthen the hand of a poor and needy man.

And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich. I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that is sin.

Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright in him. (But the righteous man shall live by his faith. Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous.) [He is] a haughty man, who does not keep at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations, and heaps to him all peoples.

And he also spoke this parable to some of those who were persuaded in themselves that they were righteous, and disdained other men.

But a certain man in the city, Simon by name, was formerly practicing sorcery, and fascinating the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be some great man, to whom they gave heed, from small to great, saying, This man is the great power of God.

And especially those going rear of flesh in a degenerate lust, and who despise lordship. Reckless, self-willed men, they do not tremble when speaking evil of dignities.

They are enclosed in their own fat. With their mouth they speak proudly.

The proud have had me greatly in derision, [yet] I have not swerved from thy law.

So also the tongue is a little body-part, and boasts greatly. Behold a little fire, how much wood it kindles.

Talk no more so very proudly. Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth, for LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak against the righteous man insolently, with pride and contempt.

The proud have forged a lie against me. With my whole heart I will keep thy precepts.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

Excellent speech is not appropriate to a fool, much less lying lips to a prince.

The proud and haughty man, scoffer is his name. He works in the arrogance of pride.

And it came to pass that, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking to all the people all the words of LORD their God, with which LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words, then Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, spoke, saying to Jeremiah, Thou speak falsely. LORD our God has not sent thee to say, Ye shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there.