Bible Verses About Spirit of Pride

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble than to divide the spoil with the proud.”

“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?”

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

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

“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.”

“He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.”

“The proud speech of a fool brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“A greedy man stirs up strife, but he who trusts in the LORD will prosper.”

“For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.”

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

“He looks down on all the haughty; he is king over all the proud.”

“The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.”

“For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD. In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.”

“The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.”

“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 fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, and humility comes before honor.”

“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.”

“The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He protects the boundaries of the widow.”

“How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations. You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.”

“So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.”

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

“The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.”

“In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.”

“Finally, all of you, be like-minded and sympathetic, love as brothers, be tenderhearted and humble.”

“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—”