'Proud' in the Bible
be careful that your heart doesn’t become proud and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.
You rescue an afflicted people,but Your eyes are set against the proud—You humble them.
However, because his heart was proud, Hezekiah didn’t respond according to the benefit that had come to him. So there was wrath on him, Judah, and Jerusalem.
If I am proud, You hunt me like a lionand again display Your miraculous power against me.
when I declared: “You may come this far, but no farther;your proud waves stop here”?
Do you make him leap like a locust?His proud snorting fills one with terror.
Unleash your raging anger;look on every proud person and humiliate him.
Look on every proud person and humble him;trample the wicked where they stand.
He surveys everything that is haughty;he is king over all the proud beasts.
How happy is the manwho has put his trust in the Lordand has not turned to the proudor to those who run after lies!
Rise up, Judge of the earth;repay the proud what they deserve.
You rebuke the proud,the ones under a curse,who wander from Your commands.
We’ve had more than enoughscorn from the arrogantand contempt from the proud.
A Davidic song of ascents.Lord, my heart is not proud;my eyes are not haughty.I do not get involved with thingstoo great or too difficult for me.
The proud hide a trap with ropes for me;they spread a net along the pathand set snares for me.Selah
Lord, do not grant the desires of the wicked;do not let them achieve their goals.Otherwise, they will become proud.Selah
The proud speech of a fool brings a rod of discipline,but the lips of the wise protect them.
The Lord destroys the house of the proud,but He protects the widow’s territory.
Everyone with a proud heart is detestable to the Lord;be assured, he will not go unpunished.
Better to be lowly of spirit with the humblethan to divide plunder with the proud.
Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud,but humility comes before honor.
The proud and arrogant person, named “Mocker,”acts with excessive pride.
The end of a matter is better than its beginning;a patient spirit is better than a proud spirit.
For a day belonging to the Lord of Hosts is comingagainst all that is proud and lofty,against all that is lifted up—it will be humbled—
But when the Lord finishes all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes.”
We have heard of Moab’s pride—how very proud he is—his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance,and his empty boasting.
Listen and pay attention. Do not be proud,for the Lord has spoken.
Didn’t you treat your sister Sodom as an object of scorn when you were proud,
“Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: This is what the Lord God says:Your heart is proud,and you have said, ‘I am a god;I sit in the seat of godsin the heart of the sea.’Yet you are a man and not a god,though you have regarded your heartas that of a god.
By your great skill in tradingyou have increased your wealth,but your heart has become proudbecause of your wealth.”
Your heart became proud because of your beauty;For the sake of your splendoryou corrupted your wisdom.So I threw you down to the earth;I made you a spectacle before kings.
The day will be dark in Tehaphnehes,when I break the yoke of Egypt thereand its proud strengthcomes to an end in the city.A cloud will cover Tehaphnehes,and its villages will go into captivity.
“Therefore this is what the Lord God says: Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,
I will make the land a desolate waste, and its proud strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, with no one passing through.
When they had pasture,they became satisfied;they were satisfied,and their hearts became proud.Therefore they forgot Me.
He has done a mighty deed with His arm;He has scattered the proudbecause of the thoughts of their hearts;
slanderers, God-haters, arrogant, proud, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Be in agreement with one another. Do not be proud; instead, associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own estimation.
We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who take pride in the outward appearance rather than in the heart.
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says:God resists the proud,but gives grace to the humble.
In the same way, you younger men, be subject to the elders. And all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, becauseGod resists the proudbut gives grace to the humble.