Bible verses about Pride
Verses that warn against pride and point to humility before God.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:18When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.
Proverbs 11:2A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.
Proverbs 29:23Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 18:12Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the guides of the wicked—are sin.
Proverbs 21:4For 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.
Romans 12:3If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Galatians 6:3For 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.
1 John 2:16But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
James 4:6Now 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.
Daniel 4:37The 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?’
Obadiah 1:3In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
Psalms 10:4The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 2:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 14:11Let another praise you, and not your own mouth— a stranger, and not your own lips.
Proverbs 27:2For 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?
1 Corinthians 4:7For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
2 Timothy 3:2The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
Proverbs 22:4Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
Psalms 101:5