Bible on Pride

Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

They are vanity, the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,

And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.

They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.

The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.

Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope:

Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

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.

O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.

In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.

The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,

This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.