Here is our list of Bible verses on pride (arrogance). It doesn’t include every verse in the Bible on pride, but the clearest and most popular were handpicked. These verses are a great reminder to me to humble myself before the Lord, and I hope they will be helpful to you as well. All verses are ASV since it is in the public domain and legal to copy.

List of Bible Verses on Pride

Psalms 10:4

The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.

Proverbs 11:2

When pride cometh, then cometh shame; But with the lowly is wisdom.

Obadiah 1:3

The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, O 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?

Proverbs 13:10

By pride cometh only contention; But with the well-advised is wisdom.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goeth before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

Leviticus 26:19

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

1 Samuel 2:3

Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Let not arrogancy come out of your mouth; For Jehovah is a God of knowledge, And by him actions are weighed.

1 Samuel 15:23

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Jehovah his God; for he went into the temple of Jehovah to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

Isaiah 13:11

And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Proverbs 16:5

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

Isaiah 2:11-12

The lofty looks of man shall be brought low, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day. For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low;

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Job 40:12

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; And tread down the wicked where they stand.

Psalms 119:21

Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, That do wander from thy commandments.

Proverbs 3:34

Surely he scoffeth at the scoffers; But he giveth grace unto the lowly.

Proverbs 8:13

The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.

Psalms 56:2

Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me.

Psalms 59:12

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:8

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Proverbs 27:2

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; A stranger, and not thine own lips.

1 Peter 5:5-7

Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.

Isaiah 5:21

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Luke 18:9-14

And he spake also this parable unto certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and set all others at nought: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I get. But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinner. I say unto you, This man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Mark 9:35

And he sat down, and called the twelve; and he saith unto them, If any man would be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.

2 Corinthians 10:17-18

But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

Galatians 5:25-26

If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk. Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

Daniel 4:29-31

At the end of twelve months he was walking in the royal palace of Babylon. The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty? While 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:

Daniel 4:37

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

Isaiah 14:12-15

How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations! And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.

Ezekiel 28:12-17

Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou wast in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was in thee; in the day that thou wast created they were prepared. Thou wast the anointed cherub that covereth: and I set thee, so that thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee. By the abundance of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore have I cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast thee to the ground; I have laid thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

Luke 11:43

Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.

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