58 Bible Verses about Pride, Results Of

So if any one of you thinks you are important when you really are not, you are only fooling yourself.

When you succeed do not brag: 'I am rich. I earned it all myself.' Remember that Jehovah your God gives you the strength to make a living. That is how he keeps the promise he made to your fathers.

We have heard of the pride of Moab and of his arrogance. We know of his pride, conceit and empty boasting.

You felt sure of yourself in your evil. You thought that no one could see you. Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray. Then you said to yourself: 'I am God! There is no one else like me.'

You have frightened other people. Your arrogance has deceived you. You live on rocky cliffs and occupy the highest places in the hills. Even though you build your nest as high as an eagle, I will bring you down from there, proclaims Jehovah.

If any man thinks he knows any thing, he really knows nothing, according to what he ought to know.

If any man teaches a different doctrine, and does not consent to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine that is according to godliness, he is proud, knows nothing, has a morbid interest in questions and disputes about words, which leads to envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions,

Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant (egotistical) men said to Jeremiah: You are telling a lie! Jehovah our God has not sent you to say: 'You are not to enter Egypt to reside there.

When this happens, be careful that you do not become arrogant and forget Jehovah your God. He brought you out of slavery in Egypt.

But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and paid no attention to your orders.

He flatters himself and does not hate or even recognize his sin.

The wicked person boasts about his selfish desires. He blesses the covetous, which Jehovah abhors.

([Psalm of David]) Why do you brag about the evil you have done, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God endures continually!

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened with pride he dealt proudly. He was deposed from his kingly throne and they took his glory from him:

The arrogant have dug pits for me. They are not in agreement with your law.

They ridicule. They speak maliciously. They speak arrogantly about oppression.

Arrogant people have laid a trap for me. They have spread out a net with ropes. They have set traps for me along the road.

We are filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

The arrogant utterly deride me, yet I do not turn aside from your law.

Proud and haughty mocker is his name. He acts with overbearing pride.

Pride brings contention, but wisdom is with the well advised.

That is why arrogance is their necklace and violence covers them like clothing.

O God, arrogant people attack me, and a mob of ruthless people seeks my life. They think nothing of you.

Let the arrogant be ashamed, for they subvert me with a lie. I shall meditate on your precepts.

My foes have trampled upon me all day long. They are many who fight proudly against me.

The wicked proudly persecutes the poor people. He will be caught in the schemes that he contrived.

Be surety for your servant for good and do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Behold, he is proud. He is not righteous. The righteous will live by faith. Wine is treacherous and never allows an arrogant man to rest. He never stays home. He has a large appetite like the grave. Like death he is never satisfied. He gathers all nations and collects all the people.

In his arrogant attitude he does not search for God. His faulty reasoning concludes: There is no God.

Whom are you defying and slandering? Against whom are you shouting? Who are you looking at so arrogantly? It is the Holy One of Israel!

I was envious of arrogant people when I saw the peace and prosperity that wicked people enjoy.

He always succeeds at what he does. Your judgments are beyond his understanding. He scoffs at all his opponents.

Every one proud in heart is an abomination to Jehovah. Though they unite they will all be punished.

You rescue the humble. You find ways to humiliate the proud.

You save humble people, but you humiliate the proud.

Unleash the fury of your wrath, look at every proud man and bring him low! Look at every proud man and humble him, crush the wicked where they stand.

Love Jehovah, all you godly ones! Jehovah protects faithful people, but he pays back in full those who act arrogantly.

I will destroy anyone who secretly slanders his neighbor. I will not tolerate anyone with a conceited look or arrogant heart.

Pride comes and then comes shame. Wisdom is with the humble.

Jehovah will destroy the house of the proud and he will establish the border of the widow.

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

A man's pride will bring him low. The humble in spirit retain honor.

The arrogant people will be humbled. High and mighty people will be brought down. On that day Jehovah alone will be exalted. All who are proud will be humbled. Jehovah of Hosts will have his day against all who are arrogant and conceited.

I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will also end the arrogance of the proud. I will demean (disgrace) the arrogance of tyranny.

He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays the lofty (inaccessible) city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust.

At that time you will no longer be ashamed of your transgression against me. I will remove everyone who is proud and arrogant. You will never again be haughty on my holy mountain.

Jehovah of Hosts proclaims: The day is coming when all arrogant and evil people will burn like stubble. On that day they will burn up and there will be nothing left of them, either root or bough.

He shows strength with his arm. He scatters the proud in the thoughts of their heart. He removes rulers from their thrones and exalts the humble.

He should not be a new believer, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation of the Devil.

The water returned and covered the chariots, the drivers, and all the Egyptian army that had followed the Israelites into the sea. None of them were left.

You did signs and wonders on Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land. You saw how cruel they were to them. So you made a name for yourself as it is today.

However when he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. He was unfaithful to Jehovah his God. He went into Jehovah's Temple to burn incense on the incense altar.

Jehovah sent an angel who exterminated all the soldiers, officials, and commanders in the Assyrian king's camp. Sennacherib was humiliated and returned to his own country. When he went into the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him with a sword.

It will happen when Jehovah has performed all his work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem. He will say: I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty appearance.

But Hezekiah was conceited. So he did not repay Jehovah for his kindness. Jehovah became angry with him, with Judah, and with Jerusalem.

Jehovah also said: Because the daughters of Zion are proud and walk with heads held high and seductive eyes, and go along with mincing steps and tinkle the bangles on their feet, Jehovah will cause sores to appear on the heads of the women of Zion. Jehovah will make their foreheads bare.

Babylon, the beauty (honor) (glory) of kingdoms, the majesty of Chaldean pride, will be overthrew by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Your pride has been brought down to the grave along with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out like a bed under you, and worms cover you.' O how you have fallen from heaven, you morning star (shining one), and son of the dawn! How you have been cut down to the ground, you who conquered nations! You thought: 'I will go up to heaven (Mount Zion) and set up my throne above God's stars (messengers). I will sit on the mountain of meeting far away in the north where the gods assemble.read more.
I will go above the top of the clouds. I will be like the Most High.' But you have been brought down to the grave, to the deepest part of the pit.