19 Bible Verses about Do Not Be Proud
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For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.
That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie!
Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Therefore thus says the LORD: behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster.
"When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him,
that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, either to the right hand or to the left, so that he may continue long in his kingdom, he and his children, in Israel.
