48 Bible Verses about Pride, Evil Of

For the sin of divination, rebellion; and deceit, and the family gods of stubbornness. Because thou didst reject the word of Jehovah, and he will reject thee from being king.

Lifting up the eyes and enlarging the heart, the light of the unjust is sin.

And now ye boast in your arrogance: all such boasting is evil.

Thefts, overreaching, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, defamation, pride, foolishness: All these evils go out from within, and pollute a man.

Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity, Whisperers, slanderers, odious to God, abusers of power, proud, tumultuous, inventors of injuries, disobedient to parents,

For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

And this know, that in the last days difficult times shall interpose. For men shall be self-lovers, lovers of money, boastful, proud, slandering, disobedient to parents, unthankful, wicked,

For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart was lifted up, and thou wilt say, I am God, I sat upon the seat of God in the heart of the seas; and thou art man and not God, and thou wilt give thy heart as the heart of God.

Not newly planted, lest rendered proud he fall into condemnation of the accuser.

Who being opposed and lifted up above all called God, or which is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Every one lifted up of heart an abomination to Jehovah: and hand to hand, shall not be unpunished.

Thou shalt not be wise in thine eyes: fear Jehovah and depart from evil.

These six Jehovah hated, and seven an abomination of his soul: Eyes being lifted up; a tongue of falsehood, and hands shedding innocent blood,

Pride coming, and dishonor will come: and wisdom with the humble.

Thou shalt not show thyself proud before the king, and thou shalt not stand in the place of the great. For good to say to thee, Come up hither, rather than humbling thyself before the noble whom thine eye saw.

Sawest thou a man wise in his eyes? hope is for the foolish one more than for him.

Thou shalt not boast upon the day of the morrow, for thou shalt not know what a day shall bring forth.

A man's pride shall bring him low: and honor shall uphold him humble of spirit

Thou didst rebuke the proud being cursed, those wandering from thy commands.

And I broke the pride of your strength: and I gave your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

Ye shall not enlarge; will ye sproud, proud? shall the impatient thing come forth from your mouth for Jehovah a God of knowledge, and doings were not made equal.

They will speak vanity each with his neighbor: smooth lips, with a heart and a heart will they speak Jehovah will cut off all smooth lips, and the tongue speaking great things:

Thus said Jehovah, The wise shall not boast in his wisdom, and the strong shall not boast in his strength; the rich shall not boast in his riches: But he boasting shall boast in this, to understand and know me, that I am Jehovah, doing mercy, judgment and justice in the earth: for in these I delighted, says Jehovah.

The foolish shall not stand before thine eyes: thou hatedst all working vanity.

Happy the man who set Jehovah his trust, and turned not to the arrogant, and those turning aside to falsehood.

If Jehovah is high, and he will see the humble one: and the lofty one he will know from far off.

Wo to the wise in their eyes, and knowing before their face.

Hear ye, and give ear; ye shall not be proud: for Jehovah spake. Ye shall give glory to Jehovah your God, before he shall darken, and before your feet shall strike upon the mountains of darkness, and ye waited for light, and he set it for the shadow of death, he will place for gloom. And if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in hiding places from the face of pride, and mine eye weeping shall weep and bring down tears, because the flock of Jehovah was taken captive.

And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whoever shall humble himself, shall be exalted.

For whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be exalted.

Thinking the same towards one another. Not thinking high things but being led by humble things. Be not wise with yourselves.

Therefore let him seeming to stand see that he fall not.

Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

But he will deride to those deriding: and he will give grace to the humble.

Where then boasting? It was excluded. By what law? of works? No: but by the law of faith.

And he spake to certain trusting upon themselves that they were just, and setting at nought the rest, this parable: Two men went up to the temple to pray; one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican.read more.
I fast twice of the Sabbath; I pay tithes of all I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not either lift up the eyes to heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God propitiate for me the sinful. I say to you, this one went down to his house justified rather than that one: for every one lifting up himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be lifted up.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has boasting; but not toward God. For what says the writing? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for justice.

And if certain of the young shoots were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in them, and wert a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Act not proudly to the young shoots. And if thou boastest, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, That the young shoots were broken off, that I might be grafted in.read more.
Well; for unbelief were they broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but do thou fear:

For ye see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many powerful, not, many well born: But the foolish things of the world, has God chosen that he might shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen that he might shame things strong; And the ignoble things of the world, and the despised things, has God chosen, and things not being, that the things being he might leave unemployed:read more.
That no flesh might boast before him. And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness: That, as it has been written, Let him boasting, boast in the Lord.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God: Not of works, lest any one should boast.

The fear of Jehovah hates evil: pride and haughtiness, and the evil way, and the mouth of perverseness I hated.

Slandering his neighbor in secret, him will I cut off: him being lofty of eyes and broad of heart, with him I will not eat

Song of ascensions to David. O Jehovah, my heart was not lifted up, and mine eyes were not exalted, and I went not in great things and in wonders above me.

For I say, by the race given me, to every one being with you, not to entertain a high opinion of one's self above what is fitting to think: but to think to be discreet, as God has divided the measure of faith to each.

Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

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