22 Bible Verses about God Opposes The Proud

For though the LORD is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.

The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

"Behold, I am against you, O proud one, declares the Lord GOD of hosts, for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

The Lord GOD has sworn by himself, declares the LORD, the God of hosts: "I abhor the pride of Jacob and hate his strongholds, and I will deliver up the city and all that is in it."

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."

For the LORD of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up--and it shall be brought low;

The LORD of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth.

You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

Love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just; and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts;

I will bring the worst of the nations to take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the pride of the strong, and their holy places shall be profaned.

For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.

You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from your commandments.

Rise up, O judge of the earth; repay to the proud what they deserve!

The LORD tears down the house of the proud but maintains the widow's boundaries.

When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.

"Thus says the LORD: Even so will I spoil the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

a mixed people shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of Philistia.

All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not keep himself alive.