28 Bible Verses about Pride, Examples Of
Most Relevant Verses
And love the uppermost places at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And salutations in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
And he said to them in his teaching, Beware of the Scribes, who love to go in long sobes, and to be saluted in the market-places, And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost places at feasts: Who devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayers:
who desire to walk in long robes, and love salutations in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief places at feasts,
But a certain man, named Simon, had been before in the city, using magic, and astonishing the Samaritans, saying, that he was some great one.
As much as she hath glorified herself and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: because she saith in her heart, I sit as a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
Peter answering said to him, Tho' all should be offended at thee, I will never be offended. Jesus said to him, Verily I say to thee, before cock-crowing thou wilt deny me thrice. Peter saith to him, If I must die with thee, yet will I in no wise deny thee. In like manner also said all the disciples.
But Peter said to him, Tho' all men shall be offended, yet will not I. Jesus saith to him, Verily I say to thee, That thou to-day, this night, before the cock crow twice, wilt deny me thrice. But he said the more vehemently, If I must die with thee, I will in no wise deny thee. In like manner also said they all.
And he said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee both to prison and to death.
Peter saith to him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.
(For all the Athenians, and the strangers sojourning there, spent their time in nothing else, but telling or hearing some new thing.)
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
Let none deceive himself: if any one among you thinketh himself to be wise, let him become a fool in this world, that he may become wise.
Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, unless the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God as God, declaring himself that he is God.
Therefore when thou dost alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.
But all their works they do, to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and inlarge the fringes of their garments.
Who devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; these shall receive greater damnation.
And the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard these things, and they derided him. And he said to them, Ye are they who justify yourselves before men: but God knoweth your hearts: And that which is highly esteemed among men, is an abomination before God.
And he spake this parable to certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others.
And some of the Pharisees that were with him heard this, and said to him, Are we blind also? Jesus said to them, If ye had been blind, ye would have had no sin. But now ye say, We see: therefore your sin remaineth.
But he willing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
They answered him, We are Abraham's offspring, and were never inslaved to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free.
They answered and said to him, Thou-wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and gloriest in God, And knowest his will, and discernest the things that differ, being instructed out of the law: And art confident, that thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, An instructer of the ignorant,read more.
a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and truth in the law.
For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou which thou hast not received? But if thou hast received it, why dost thou boast, as if thou hadst not received it?
Because thou sayst, I am rich, and have inriched myself, and have need of nothing, and knowest not, that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.
