'Proud' in the Bible

Don't keep speaking so arrogantly, letting proud talk come out of your mouth! For the Lord is a God who knows; he evaluates what people do.

You deliver oppressed people, but you watch the proud and bring them down.

But Hezekiah was ungrateful; he had a proud attitude, provoking God to be angry at him, as well as Judah and Jerusalem.

Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

when I said, 'To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined'?

Do you make it leap like a locust? Its proud neighing is terrifying!

Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low;

Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot!

It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud."

For you deliver oppressed people, but you bring down those who have a proud look.

for he is too proud to recognize and give up his sin.

How blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord and does not seek help from the proud or from liars!

For I envied those who are proud, as I observed the prosperity of the wicked.

I say to the proud, "Do not be proud," and to the wicked, "Do not be so confident of victory!

You rule over the proud sea. When its waves surge, you calm them.

You crushed the Proud One and killed it; with your strong arm you scattered your enemies.

Rise up, O judge of the earth! Pay back the proud!

We have had our fill of the taunts of the self-assured, of the contempt of the proud.

A song of ascents, by David. O Lord, my heart is not proud, nor do I have a haughty look. I do not have great aspirations, or concern myself with things that are beyond me.

Though the Lord is exalted, he takes note of the lowly, and recognizes the proud from far away.

Proud men hide a snare for me; evil men spread a net by the path; they set traps for me. (Selah)

The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he maintains the boundaries of the widow.

It is better to be lowly in spirit with the afflicted than to share the spoils with the proud.

Before destruction the heart of a person is proud, but humility comes before honor.

Haughty eyes and a proud heart -- the agricultural product of the wicked is sin.

A proud and arrogant person, whose name is "Scoffer," acts with overbearing pride.

Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud -- they will be humiliated;

Proud men will be humiliated, arrogant men will be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

The Lord says, "The women of Zion are proud. They walk with their heads high and flirt with their eyes. They skip along and the jewelry on their ankles jingles.

Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low.

Egypt is totally incapable of helping. For this reason I call her 'Proud one who is silenced.'"

Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, O arm of the Lord! Wake up as in former times, as in antiquity! Did you not smash the Proud One? Did you not wound the sea monster?

I have heard how proud the people of Moab are, I know how haughty they are. I have heard how arrogant, proud, and haughty they are, what a high opinion they have of themselves.

"Listen! I am opposed to you, you proud city," says the Lord God who rules over all. "Indeed, your day of reckoning has come, the time when I will punish you.

You will stumble and fall, you proud city; no one will help you get up. I will set fire to your towns; it will burn up everything that surrounds you."

this is what the sovereign Lord says: Tear off the turban, take off the crown! Things must change! Exalt the lowly, bring down the proud!

"Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: "'Your heart is proud and you said, "I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas" -- yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike.

By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth.

Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor. I threw you down to the ground; I placed you before kings, that they might see you.

"'Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because it was tall in stature, and its top reached into the clouds, and it was proud of its height,

When they were fed, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; as a result, they forgot me!

Indeed, wine will betray the proud, restless man! His appetite is as big as Sheol's; like death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations; he seizes all peoples.

Her prophets are proud; they are deceitful men. Her priests defile what is holy; they break God's laws.

And you are proud! Shouldn't you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us, so that you may be able to answer those who take pride in outward appearance and not in what is in the heart.

so that what you can be proud of may increase because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you.

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble."

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

The beast was given a mouth speaking proud words and blasphemies, and he was permitted to exercise ruling authority for forty-two months.