Pride

Pride is warned against throughout Scripture. This page lists verses on God's opposition to the proud, pride before a fall, boasting, and accounts of pride in Scripture.

God opposes the proud

• James 4:6
  But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
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• 1 Peter 5:5
  Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
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• Proverbs 3:34
  Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
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• Proverbs 16:5
  Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
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Pride before a fall

• Proverbs 16:18
  Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
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• Proverbs 11:2
  When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
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• Proverbs 29:23
  A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
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• Obadiah 1:3-4
  ³The 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? ⁴Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.
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Pride among things God hates

• Proverbs 6:16-17
  ¹⁶These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: ¹⁷A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
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• Proverbs 8:13
  The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
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• 1 John 2:16
  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.
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Boasting

• Jeremiah 9:23-24
  ²³Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: ²⁴But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.
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• 1 Corinthians 1:31
  That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
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• Galatians 6:14
  But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.
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• James 4:16
  But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
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Accounts in Scripture

• Daniel 4:30-32
  ³⁰The 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? ³¹While the word was in the king’s mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, saying, O king Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; The kingdom is departed from thee. ³²And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
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• Daniel 4:37
  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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• 2 Chronicles 26:16
  But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
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• Luke 18:11-14
  ¹¹The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. ¹²I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess. ¹³And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner. ¹⁴I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
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See also

• Humility
• Sin
• Hypocrisy

Notes

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