46 Bible Verses About Humility vs. Pride

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.

And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits.

Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?

The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.

For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.

That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;

And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth him, and he saith to every one that he is a fool.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:

For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.