32 Bible Verses about Arrogance, Characterizes The Wicked

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

There they cry, but He gives no answer, because of the pride of evildoers.

The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the plans that they have imagined. For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous whom Jehovah despises. Through the pride of his face the wicked will not seek Him; There is no God in all his schemes.read more.
His ways are always perverted; Your judgments are high, out of his sight. As for all his enemies, he puffs at them. He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation, never in evil! His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue are mischief and vanity. He sits in the hiding-places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the poor. He lies in wait secretly, like a lion in his den. He lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor when he draws him into his net. He crouches and bows, and the poor have fallen by his might. He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will not see forever!

For I was jealous of the proud, when I saw the peace of the wicked. For there are no bands in their death; but their strength is fat. They are not in trouble like other men; neither are they plagued like other men.read more.
Therefore pride enchains them; violence covers them like a robe. Their eyes stand out with fatness; they have more than the heart could imagine. They scoff and speak in malice of cruelty; from on high they speak. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth. Therefore His people return here, and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High? Behold, these are the ungodly, who are at ease in the world; they increase in riches.

O God, the proud have risen against me, and the company of violent men have sought after my life, and have not set You before them.

How long shall the wicked, O Jehovah, how long shall the wicked exult? They gush; they speak impudent things; all the workers of iniquity speak proudly. They crush Your people, O Jehovah, and afflict Your inheritance.read more.
They kill the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. Yet they say, Jehovah shall not see, nor shall the God of Jacob observe it.

And now we are calling the arrogant blessed. Not only are the doers of wickedness built up, they also test God, and escape.

And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,read more.
undiscerning, perfidious, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

And all the people shall know, Ephraim and the people of Samaria, who say in pride and hardness of heart, The bricks have fallen down, but we will build with cut stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we use cedars instead.

At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spoke and said, Is this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?

As much as she has glorified herself and has lived in luxury, so much torment and sorrow give her. For she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and I am not a widow; and I do not see mourning at all.

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust 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, Do not let him who girds on boast himself like the one who loosens his armor.

You have indeed stricken Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Rejoice and stay at home, for why should you meddle to your harm, so that you should fall, you and Judah with you?

You have said, Lo, I have stricken the Edomites, and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle to your hurt, so that you should fall, you and Judah with you?

Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and we have made a vision with hell; when the overwhelming rod shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood,

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom; pride. Fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters. Nor did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

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

Behold, the soul of him is lifted up, and is not upright; but the just shall live by his faith. And also wine indeed betrays a proud man, and he is not content. He widens his soul like Sheol, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all nations to himself, and heaps to himself all the peoples.

And He spoke this parable to certain ones who trusted in themselves, that they were righteous, and despised others:

But a certain man called Simon had long been conjuring in the city, and amazing the nation of Samaria, claiming himself to be some great one. All gave heed to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, This one is the great power of God.

and especially those who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise dominion. They are darers, self-pleasing; not trembling at glories, speaking evil.

They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly,

The proud have utterly scorned me; yet I have not turned aside from Your Law.

Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Behold how little a fire kindles how large a forest!

Talk no more so very proudly. Remove arrogance out of your mouth, for Jehovah is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed.

Let the lying lips be put to silence; the lips which speak proudly against the righteous, with pride and scorn.

The proud have forged a lie against me; I will keep Your Commandments with all my heart.

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

An excellent lip is not fitting for a fool; much less are lying lips fitting for a prince.

Proud, haughty scorner is his name, he who deals in proud wrath.

And it happened when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking to all the people all the Words of Jehovah their God, for which Jehovah their God had sent him to them, all these Words, Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, spoke then, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely! Jehovah our God has not sent you to say, Do not go to Egypt to live there.