22 Bible Verses about God Opposes The Proud

For high is Jehovah, and the lowly He seeth, And the haughty from afar He knoweth.

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

Lo, I am against thee, O pride, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, For thy day hath come, the time of thy inspection.

Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --

Sworn hath the Lord Jehovah by Himself, An affirmation of Jehovah, God of Hosts: I am abominating the excellency of Jacob, And his high places I have hated, And I have delivered up the city and its fulness.

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

For a day is to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one,

Jehovah of Hosts hath counselled it, To pollute the excellency of all beauty, To make light all the honoured of earth.

And the poor people Thou dost save, And Thine eyes on the high causest to fall.

Love Jehovah, all ye His saints, Jehovah is keeping the faithful, And recompensing abundantly a proud doer.

Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and exalting and honouring the King of the heavens, for all His works are truth, and His paths judgment, and those walking in pride He is able to humble.'

He did powerfully with His arm, He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart,

And I have brought in the wicked of the nations, And they have possessed their houses, And I have caused to cease the excellency of the strong, And polluted have been those sanctifying them.

For Thou a poor people savest, And the eyes of the high causest to fall.

Thou hast rebuked the cursed proud, Who are erring from Thy commands.

Be lifted up, O Judge of the earth, Send back a recompence on the proud.

The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.

And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes.

Thus do I mar the excellency of Judah, And the great excellency of Jerusalem.

And dwelt hath a foreigner in Ashdod, And I have cut off the excellency of the Philistines.

And the fat ones of earth have eaten, And they bow themselves, Before Him bow do all going down to dust, And he who hath not revived his soul.