Bible Verses About Pride
Verses about the danger of pride, God's resistance to the haughty, and the way of humility.
Pride is the sin beneath every other sin — the assumption that we are the center of our own story. These Bible verses on pride take it seriously, not because God is threatened by human confidence, but because pride blinds us to our need, isolates us from grace, and sets us up for a fall. Proverbs is blunt: pride goes before destruction. James echoes: God resists the proud. But the same passages offer the antidote — humility, which God promises to exalt. The way up is always down in God's kingdom.
“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
Proverbs 16:18
More Verses for Pride
“But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.”
James 4:6
“The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.”
Proverbs 8:13
“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 the world.”
1 John 2:16
“A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.”
Proverbs 29:23
“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.”
Daniel 4:37
“Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.”
Proverbs 21:24
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