48 Bible Verses about Pride, Evil Of

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou have rejected the word of LORD, he has also rejected thee from being king.

A high look, and a proud heart, [even] the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

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

covetings, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, reviling, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from inside, and defile the man.

having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; being gossips, slanderous, God-hating, aggressors, arrogant boasters, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents;

For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, t

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, impious,

Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, Thus says lord LORD: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou have said, I am a god. I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas. Yet thou are man, and not God, though thou did set thy h

not a new convert, lest having been puffed up he may fall into the condemnation of the devil.

who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or an object of worship, so as for him to sit in the temple of God, as God, displaying himself that he is God.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to LORD. Hand in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Be not wise in thine own eyes. Fear LORD, and depart from evil.

There are six things which LORD hates, yea, seven which are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with the lowly is wisdom.

Put not thyself forward in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men. For it is better that it be said to thee, Come up here, than that thou should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom thine eyes have seen.

See thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than of him.

Boast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou know not what a day may bring forth.

A man's pride shall bring him low, but he who is of a lowly spirit shall obtain honor.

Thou have rebuked the proud, who are cursed, who wander from thy commandments.

And I will break the pride of your power. And I will make your sky as iron, and your earth as brass,

Talk no more so very proudly. Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth, for LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. With flattering lip, and with a double heart, they speak. LORD will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaks great things,

Thus says LORD: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man glory in his might. Let not the rich man glory in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth. For in these things I delight, says LORD.

The arrogant shall not stand in thy sight. Thou hate all workers of iniquity.

Blessed is the man who makes LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

For though LORD is high, yet he has respect to the lowly. But he knows the haughty from afar.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Hear ye, and give ear, be not proud, for LORD has spoken. Give glory to LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains. And, while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness. But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride. And my eye shall weep greatly, and run down with tears, because LORD's flock is taken captive.

And he who will exalt himself will be made low, and he who will make himself low will be exalted.

Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.

thinking the same way toward each other, not thinking on lofty things, but accommodating to the lowly. Become not wise according to yourselves,

Therefore let him who seems to stand take heed lest he fall.

Likewise younger men should be subordinate to the elder men. And all being subordinate to each other, clothe yourselves with humility, because God sets himself against the haughty, but gives grace to the lowly.

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly.

Surely {the Lord is opposed to the arrogant (LXX/NT)}, but he gives grace to the lowly.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what law, of works? No, but by a law of faith.

And he also spoke this parable to some of those who were persuaded in themselves that they were righteous, and disdained other men. Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax collector. Having stood by himself, the Pharisee prayed these things: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, predatory, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.read more.
I fast twice per Sabbath. I tithe all things, as many as I acquire. But the tax collector, having stood from afar, would not even lift his eyes to the sky, but beat upon his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinful man. I say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that man. Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.

For if Abraham was made righteous from works, he has a boast, but not before God. For what does the scripture say? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness.

And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a joint partaker of the root of the fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if thou boast, thou do not bear the root, but the root thee. Thou will therefore say, Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.read more.
Correct! They were broken off for their unbelief, and thou stand by thy faith. Be not high-minded but fear,

For notice your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to flesh, not many powerful, not many eminent. But God chose the foolish things of the world, so that he might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, so that he might humiliate the powerful. And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are,read more.
so that no flesh may boast before God. But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, just as it is written, He who boasts, let him boast in Lord.

For ye are saved by grace through faith, and this a gift of God, not from you, not from works, so that not any man may boast.

The fear of LORD is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.

He who slanders his neighbor secretly, him I will destroy. He who has a high look and a proud heart I will not endure.

LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty. Neither do I exercise myself in grand matters, or in things too wonderful for me.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to over think beyond what he ought to think, but to think so as to think soundly, as God has apportioned to each man a measure of faith.

Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up.

But may it not be from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.