'Pride' in the Bible
I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.
He took great pride in the ways of the Lord and again removed the high places and the Asherim from Judah.
However, Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
That He may turn man aside from his conduct,And keep man from pride;
“There they cry out, but He does not answerBecause of the pride of evil men.
“He looks on everything that is high;He is king over all the sons of pride.”
In pride the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted;Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.
Let the lying lips be mute,Which speak arrogantly against the righteousWith pride and contempt.
Let not the foot of pride come upon me,And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.
Though its waters roar and foam,Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride. Selah.
On account of the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,Let them even be caught in their pride,And on account of curses and lies which they utter.
Therefore pride is their necklace;The garment of violence covers them.
Do not lift up your horn on high,Do not speak with insolent pride.’”
As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years,Or if due to strength, eighty years,Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow;For soon it is gone and we fly away.
“The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;Pride and arrogance and the evil wayAnd the perverted mouth, I hate.
When pride comes, then comes dishonor,But with the humble is wisdom.
Pride goes before destruction,And a haughty spirit before stumbling.
“Proud,” “Haughty,” “Scoffer,” are his names,Who acts with insolent pride.
A man’s pride will bring him low,But a humble spirit will obtain honor.
The pride of man will be humbledAnd the loftiness of men will be abased;And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
In that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride and the adornment of the survivors of Israel.
And all the people know it,That is, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,Asserting in pride and in arrogance of heart:
And Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms, the glory of the Chaldeans’ pride,Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride;Even of his arrogance, pride, and fury;His idle boasts are false.
The Lord of hosts has planned it, to defile the pride of all beauty,To despise all the honored of the earth.
And he will spread out his hands in the middle of itAs a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,But the Lord will lay low his pride together with the trickery of his hands.
“Whereas you have been forsaken and hatedWith no one passing through,I will make you an everlasting pride,A joy from generation to generation.
“Thus says the Lord, ‘Just so will I destroy the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
But if you will not listen to it,My soul will sob in secret for such pride;And my eyes will bitterly weepAnd flow down with tears,Because the flock of the Lord has been taken captive.
“We have heard of the pride of Moab—he is very proud—Of his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance and his self-exaltation.
They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.
Therefore, I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong ones cease, and their holy places will be profaned.
As the name of your sister Sodom was not heard from your lips in your day of pride,
‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and the delight of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.
‘As for you, son of man, will it not be on the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their pride, the desire of their eyes and their heart’s delight, their sons and their daughters,
‘Thus says the Lord,“Indeed, those who support Egypt will fallAnd the pride of her power will come down;From Migdol to SyeneThey will fall within her by the sword,”Declares the Lord God.
“In Tehaphnehes the day will be darkWhen I break there the yoke bars of Egypt.Then the pride of her power will cease in her;A cloud will cover her,And her daughters will go into captivity.
By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your hordes to fall; all of them are tyrants of the nations,And they will devastate the pride of Egypt,And all its hordes will be destroyed.
I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and the pride of her power will cease; and the mountains of Israel will be desolate so that no one will pass through.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and He is able to humble those who walk in pride.”
Moreover, the pride of Israel testifies against him,And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;Judah also has stumbled with them.
Though the pride of Israel testifies against him,Yet they have not returned to the Lord their God,Nor have they sought Him, for all this.
The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob,“Indeed, I will never forget any of their deeds.
This they will have in return for their pride, because they have taunted and become arrogant against the people of the Lord of hosts.
And a mongrel race will dwell in Ashdod,And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
“And they will pass through the sea of distressAnd He will strike the waves in the sea,So that all the depths of the Nile will dry up;And the pride of Assyria will be brought downAnd the scepter of Egypt will depart.
There is a sound of the shepherds’ wail,For their glory is ruined;There is a sound of the young lions’ roar,For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness.
We are not again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.