29 Bible Verses about Proud People

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, because in this affair they dealt arrogantly with the people."

So I spoke to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the command of the LORD and presumptuously went up into the hill country.

"But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.

And you warned them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your rules, which if a person does them, he shall live by them, and they turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.

You have indeed struck down Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your glory, and stay at home, for why should you provoke trouble so that you fall, you and Judah with you?"

Some are arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

and all the people will know, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:

They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.

We have heard of the pride of Moab-- how proud he is!-- of his arrogance, his pride, and his insolence; in his idle boasting he is not right.

We have heard of the pride of Moab-- he is very proud-- of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.

And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

Let not the foot of arrogance come upon me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.

Was not your sister Sodom a byword in your mouth in the day of your pride,

"Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your heart is proud, and you have said, 'I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,' yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god--

And you magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and multiplied your words against me; I heard it.

He shall pay no attention to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women. He shall not pay attention to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all.

By his cunning he shall make deceit prosper under his hand, and in his own mind he shall become great. Without warning he shall destroy many. And he shall even rise up against the Prince of princes, and he shall be broken--but by no human hand.

And when the multitude is taken away, his heart shall be exalted, and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.

"And the king shall do as he wills. He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall be done.

but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.

"Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.

For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish--that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months.

Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.

"Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her according to all that she has done. For she has proudly defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.

The pride of Israel testifies to his face; Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in his guilt; Judah also shall stumble with them.

The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him, for all this.