59 Verses About Proud from 20 Books

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

1 Samuel 2:3

"Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth, For the LORD is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

Daniel 5:20

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

Ecclesiastes 7:8

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Additions to Esther 7:24

You know all things and you know, Lord, that it was neither in contempt nor pride nor for any desire of glory that I did not bow down to proud Haman.



Additions to Esther 13:2

"Many, the more often they are honored with the great bounty of their gracious princes, the more proud they become,

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

Isaiah 2:12

For there will be a day of the LORD of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:

Isaiah 3:5

The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

Isaiah 10:12

Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

Isaiah 13:3

I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.

Isaiah 13:11

I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.



Isaiah 16:6

We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.

James 4:6

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

Jeremiah 13:15

Hear, and give ear; don't be proud; for the LORD has spoken.

Jeremiah 43:2

then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely: the LORD our God has not sent you to say, You shall not go into Egypt to live there;

Jeremiah 48:29

We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

Jeremiah 50:29

Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her all around; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 50:31

Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, the LORD of Armies; for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.



Jeremiah 50:32

The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are around him.

Job 15:25

Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

Job 28:8

The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there.

Job 36:9

then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

Job 38:11

and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'

Job 39:13

"The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; but are they the feathers and plumage of love?

Job 40:11

Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.



Job 40:12

Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

Jude 1:16

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

Luke 1:51

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Malachi 3:15

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.'

Malachi 4:1

"For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says the LORD of Armies, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

Nehemiah 9:10

and showed signs and wonders against Pharaoh, and against all his servants, and against all the people of his land; for you knew that they dealt proudly against them, and made a name for yourself, as it is this day.

Nehemiah 9:16

"But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardened their neck, didn't listen to your commandments,



Nehemiah 9:29

and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they dealt proudly, and didn't listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.

Obadiah 1:12

But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress.

Proverbs 15:25

the LORD will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow's borders intact.

Proverbs 16:5

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

Proverbs 16:19

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

Proverbs 21:4

A high look, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

Proverbs 21:24

The proud and haughty man, "scoffer" is his name; he works in the arrogance of pride.

Psalms 17:10

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Psalms 40:4

Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Psalms 56:2

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me.

Psalms 86:14

God, the proud have risen up against me. A company of violent men have sought after my soul, and they don't hold regard for you before them.

Psalms 94:2

Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

Psalms 119:21

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

Psalms 119:69

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

Psalms 119:78

Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.

Psalms 119:85

The proud have dug pits for me, contrary to your law.

Psalms 119:122

Ensure your servant's well-being. Don't let the proud oppress me.

Psalms 123:4

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud. A Song of Ascents. By David.

Psalms 124:5

then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

Psalms 138:6

For though the LORD is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.

Psalms 140:5

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

Psalms 140:8

the LORD, don't grant the desires of the wicked. Don't let their evil plans succeed, or they will become proud. Selah.

Zephaniah 3:11

In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of the midst of you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.





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