19 Bible Verses about Do Not Be Proud

Listen, and pay attention, you must not be haughty, for Yahweh has spoken.

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone who is among you not to think more highly of yourself than what one ought to think, but to think {sensibly}, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each one.

For if anyone thinks he is something [although he] is nothing, he is deceiving himself.

[Do] nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves,

Do not increase speaking {very proud} words! Let no arrogance go forth from your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge [whose] deeds are not weighed.

Do not lift up high your horn. Do [not] speak with {arrogant pride}.'"

do not boast against the branches. But if you boast against [them], you do not support the root, but the root [supports] you.

Well said! They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand firm because of faith. Do not think arrogant [thoughts], but be afraid.

Now I have applied these things, brothers, to myself and Apollos for your sake, in order that in us you may learn not [to go] beyond what is written, lest someone be inflated with pride on behalf of one [person] against the other.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

Command those [who are] rich in this present age not to be proud and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who provides us all [things] richly for enjoyment,

Blessed [is] the man who makes Yahweh his trust and does not turn to [the] proud and [to those who] fall away [to] a lie.

The end of a matter [is] better than its beginning; {better to be slow to anger than hot-headed}.

Does the ax boast against the one who cuts with it, or the saw magnify itself against [the] one who moves it to and fro? {As if a rod should move the one who lifts it}! {As if a staff should lift up that which is not wood}!

not newly converted, lest he become conceited [and] fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Therefore, thus says Yahweh: Look! I am planning disaster against this family from which you will not be able to remove your necks. You will not walk proudly, for it [is] a time of disaster.

"When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not recline at the table in the place of honor, lest [someone] more distinguished than you has been invited by him,

[so as] not to exalt his heart above his countrymen and not to turn aside from the commandment to the right or to the left, so that {he may reign long over his kingdom}, he and his children in the midst of Israel."

But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.