Bible Verses About Proud People

“But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

“Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

“The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.”

“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

“You rebuke the arrogant — the cursed who stray from Your commandments.”

“To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.”

“When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.”

“A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.”

“To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men — swindlers, evildoers, adulterers — or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.’ But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

“Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.”

“For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?”

“In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.”

“Let another praise you, and not your own mouth— a stranger, and not your own lips.”

“He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in the thoughts of their hearts.”

“Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.”

“Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.”

“Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.”

“Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.”

“Arrogance leads only to strife, but wisdom is with the well-advised.”

“The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’

“If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.”

“Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.”

“For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

“Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the guides of the wicked— are sin.”

“Mocker is the name of the proud and arrogant man — of him who acts with excessive pride.”

“Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.”

“Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.”

“Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings.”

“Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.”

“By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.”

“It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble than to divide the spoil with the proud.”

“For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but think of yourself with sober judgment, according to the measure of faith God has given you.”

“For all that is in the world — the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life — is not from the Father but from the world.”

“For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—”

“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

“But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem. Then Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart— he and the people of Jerusalem— so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.”

“I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.”

“The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.”

“For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.”

“We are not commending ourselves to you again. Instead, we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who take pride in appearances rather than in the heart.”

“These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.”

“He mocks the mockers, but gives grace to the humble.”

“It is not good to eat too much honey or to search out one’s own glory.”

“The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one.”

“We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.”

“A song of ascents. Of David. My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.”

“Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.”

“Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.”

“But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.”

“Brothers, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not take pride in one man over another.”