Bible Verses About Pride
Discover what the Bible says about pride and its dangers. Find 20+ Scripture passages about cultivating humility and seeking God's grace instead of self-exaltation.
Self-exaltation acts as a veil that blinds us to our desperate and daily need for the Father’s sustaining mercy. When we lift ourselves up on pedestals of our own making, we move away from the very source of our true strength. God opposes the haughty because He desires to lead us into the restorative valley of humility, where His grace flows most freely. Trade the heavy burden of status for the light yoke of service as you seek to honor Him in all things.
Key Passages
"When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom."
"The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day."
"Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility."
"¶ The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?"
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"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
"A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit."
"The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate."
"But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble."
"Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits."
"Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished."
"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world."
"Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves."
"Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:"
"Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil."
"He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction."
"Peter answered and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended."
"The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?"
"So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified."
"And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;"
"In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain."
"The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined."
"The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts."
"Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues."
"Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me."
"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."
"Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment."
"Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom."
"In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them."
"Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase."
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