100 Bible Verses About Pride

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

Amon his son, Josiah his son.

He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.

The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.

And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.

Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.

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

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?

Iddo, Ginnetho, Abijah,

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

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

And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh; he roasteth roast, and is satisfied: yea, he warmeth himself, and saith, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire:

And Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.

Thou hast made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground.

Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

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

And Solomon went to Hamath–zobah, and prevailed against it.

That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

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.

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord’s house.

They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.

But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.

Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.

Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

This is the word which the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

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

And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually.

He built even Beth–lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

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

The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.

If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.

Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

The Lord will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.

Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.

The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.

Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

And Zillah, she also bare Tubal–cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal–cain was Naamah.

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,

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

Of the sons of Pahath–moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.

And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

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 glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

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

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.