PRIDE

Passages on this topic · 300

• Exodus 18:10

  Jethro said, “Blessed be Yahweh, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh; who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

• Exodus 18:11

  Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them.”

• Leviticus 26:19

  I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass.

• Deuteronomy 8:11

  Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today;

• Deuteronomy 8:12

  lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and lived in them;

• Deuteronomy 8:13

  and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

• Deuteronomy 8:14

  then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

• Deuteronomy 8:17

  and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”

• Deuteronomy 8:18

  But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

• Deuteronomy 8:19

  It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.

• Deuteronomy 8:20

  As the nations that Yahweh makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you wouldn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.

• Judges 9:14

  “Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’

• Judges 9:15

  “The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

• 1 Samuel 2:3

  “Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

• 1 Samuel 2:4

  “The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.

• 1 Samuel 2:5

  Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.

• 2 Samuel 17:23

  When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

• 1 Kings 20:11

  The king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Don’t let him who puts on his armor brag like he who takes it off.’”

• 2 Kings 5:11

  But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, “Behold, I thought, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.’

• 2 Kings 5:12

  Aren’t Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Couldn’t I wash in them, and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

• 2 Kings 5:13

  His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’”

• 2 Kings 14:9

  Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

• 2 Kings 14:10

  You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”

• 2 Kings 20:13

  Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the storehouse of his precious things, the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, or in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

• 2 Chronicles 25:18

  Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as his wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and trampled down the thistle.

• 2 Chronicles 25:19

  You say to yourself that you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast. Now stay at home. Why should you meddle with trouble, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?’”

• 2 Chronicles 26:16

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

• 2 Chronicles 26:17

  Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him eighty priests of Yahweh, who were valiant men.

• 2 Chronicles 26:18

  They resisted Uzziah the king, and said to him, “It isn’t for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to Yahweh, but for the priests the sons of Aaron, who are consecrated to burn incense. Go out of the sanctuary, for you have trespassed. It will not be for your honor from Yahweh God.”

• 2 Chronicles 26:19

  Then Uzziah was angry. He had a censer in his hand to burn incense, and while he was angry with the priests, the leprosy broke out on his forehead before the priests in Yahweh’s house, beside the altar of incense.

• 2 Chronicles 32:31

  However concerning the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.

• Esther 3:5

  When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.

• Esther 5:11

  Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

• Esther 5:13

  Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

• Esther 6:6

  So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

• Esther 7:10

  So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

• Job 11:12

  An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

• Job 12:2

  “No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

• Job 12:3

  But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

• Job 13:2

  What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

• Job 13:5

  Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

• Job 15:1

  Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered,

• Job 15:2

  “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

• Job 15:3

  Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

• Job 15:4

  Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

• Job 15:5

  For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

• Job 15:6

  Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.

• Job 15:7

  “Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought out before the hills?

• Job 15:8

  Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?

• Job 15:9

  What do you know, that we don’t know? What do you understand, which is not in us?

• Job 15:10

  With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.

• Job 15:11

  Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

• Job 15:12

  Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

• Job 15:13

  That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

• Job 18:3

  Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

• Job 21:31

  Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

• Job 21:32

  Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

• Job 32:9

  It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

• Job 32:10

  Therefore I said, ‘Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.’

• Job 32:11

  “Behold, I waited for your words, and I listened for your reasoning, while you searched out what to say.

• Job 32:12

  Yes, I gave you my full attention, but there was no one who convinced Job, or who answered his words, among you.

• Job 32:13

  Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;’

• Job 37:24

  Therefore men revere him. He doesn’t regard any who are wise of heart.”

• Psalms 9:20

  Put them in fear, Yahweh. Let the nations know that they are only men. Selah.

• Psalms 10:2

  In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

• Psalms 10:3

  For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.

• Psalms 10:4

  The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

• Psalms 10:5

  His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

• Psalms 10:6

  He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

• Psalms 10:11

  He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

• Psalms 12:4

  who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?”

• Psalms 18:27

  For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.

• Psalms 31:23

  Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

• Psalms 49:11

  Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

• Psalms 52:7

  “Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

• Psalms 73:6

  Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

• Psalms 73:8

  They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

• Psalms 73:9

  They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

• Psalms 75:4

  I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.

• Psalms 75:5

  Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”

• Psalms 75:6

  For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.

• Psalms 101:5

  I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

• 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 119:70

  Their heart is as callous as the fat, but I delight in your law.

• Psalms 119:78

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

• Psalms 138:6

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

• Proverbs 3:34

  Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

• Proverbs 6:16

  There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

• Proverbs 6:17

  haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

• Proverbs 8:13

  The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

• Proverbs 10:17

  He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

• Proverbs 11:2

  When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

• Proverbs 11:12

  One who despises his neighbor is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

• Proverbs 12:9

  Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread.

• Proverbs 12:15

  The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

• Proverbs 13:10

  Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

• Proverbs 14:21

  He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.

• Proverbs 15:5

  A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

• Proverbs 15:10

  There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

• Proverbs 15:12

  A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

• Proverbs 15:25

  Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

• Proverbs 15:32

  He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

• Proverbs 16:5

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

• Proverbs 16:18

  Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

• Proverbs 16:19

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

• Proverbs 17:19

  He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

• Proverbs 18:11

  The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

• Proverbs 18:12

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

• Proverbs 20:6

  Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?

• 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.

• Proverbs 25:14

  As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.

• Proverbs 25:27

  It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

• Proverbs 26:5

  Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

• Proverbs 26:12

  Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

• Proverbs 26:16

  The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

• Proverbs 27:2

  Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

• Proverbs 28:11

  The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

• Proverbs 28:25

  One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

• Proverbs 29:8

  Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

• Proverbs 29:23

  A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

• Proverbs 30:12

  There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.

• Proverbs 30:13

  There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

• Isaiah 2:11

  The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

• Isaiah 2:12

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

• Isaiah 2:13

  For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan,

• Isaiah 2:14

  For all the high mountains, for all the hills that are lifted up,

• Isaiah 2:15

  For every lofty tower, for every fortified wall,

• Isaiah 2:16

  For all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery.

• Isaiah 2:17

  The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

• Isaiah 3:16

  Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;

• Isaiah 3:17

  therefore the Lord brings sores on the crown of the head of the women of Zion, and Yahweh will make their scalps bald.”

• Isaiah 3:18

  In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,

• Isaiah 3:19

  the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,

• Isaiah 3:20

  the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms,

• Isaiah 3:21

  the signet rings, the nose rings,

• Isaiah 3:22

  the fine robes, the capes, the cloaks, the purses,

• Isaiah 3:23

  the hand mirrors, the fine linen garments, the tiaras, and the shawls.

• Isaiah 3:24

  It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

• Isaiah 3:25

  Your men shall fall by the sword, and your mighty in the war.

• Isaiah 3:26

  Her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit on the ground.

• Isaiah 5:8

  Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

• Isaiah 5:15

  So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

• Isaiah 9:9

  All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,

• Isaiah 9:10

  “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”

• Isaiah 10:5

  Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

• Isaiah 10:6

  I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

• Isaiah 10:7

  However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

• Isaiah 10:8

  For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?

• Isaiah 10:9

  Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?”

• Isaiah 10:10

  As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

• Isaiah 10:11

  shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

• 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 10:13

  For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.

• Isaiah 10:14

  My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

• Isaiah 10:15

  Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

• Isaiah 10:16

  Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.

• 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 14:12

  How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

• Isaiah 14:13

  You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!

• Isaiah 14:14

  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”

• Isaiah 14:15

  Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

• Isaiah 14:16

  Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;

• 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.

• Isaiah 16:7

  Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.

• Isaiah 22:16

  ‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”

• Isaiah 22:19

  I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.

• Isaiah 23:7

  Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her far away to travel?

• Isaiah 23:9

  Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

• Isaiah 24:4

  The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

• Isaiah 24:21

  It shall happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.

• Isaiah 26:5

  For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.

• Isaiah 28:3

  The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim will be trodden under foot.

• Isaiah 39:2

  Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn’t show them.

• Isaiah 47:4

  Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, is the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 47:5

  “Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no longer be called the mistress of kingdoms.

• Isaiah 47:6

  I was angry with my people. I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand. You showed them no mercy. You laid a very heavy yoke on the aged.

• Isaiah 47:7

  You said, ‘I will be a princess forever;’ so that you did not lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.

• Isaiah 47:8

  “Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me. I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children.’

• Isaiah 47:9

  But these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

• Isaiah 47:10

  For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’

• Jeremiah 9:23

  Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

• Jeremiah 9:24

  But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 13:9

  “Yahweh says, ‘In this way I, will ruin the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 13:15

  Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.

• Jeremiah 13:17

  But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret for your pride; and my eye shall weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock is taken captive.

• Jeremiah 48:7

  For, because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you also shall be taken. Chemosh will go out into captivity, his priests and his princes together.

• Jeremiah 48:14

  “How do you say, ‘We are mighty men, and valiant men for the war?’

• Jeremiah 48:15

  Moab is laid waste, and they have gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men have gone down to the slaughter,” says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

• Jeremiah 48:29

  “We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

• Jeremiah 49:4

  Why do you boast in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You trusted in her treasures, saying, ‘Who will come to me?’

• Jeremiah 49:16

  As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 50:31

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

• Jeremiah 50:32

  The proud one will stumble and fall, and no one will raise him up. I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are around him.”

• Ezekiel 16:56

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

• Ezekiel 28:2

  Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God —

• Ezekiel 28:3

  behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;

• Ezekiel 28:4

  by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;

• Ezekiel 28:5

  by your great wisdom and by your traffic you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches —

• Ezekiel 28:6

  therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,

• Ezekiel 28:7

  therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.

• Ezekiel 28:8

  They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.

• Ezekiel 28:9

  Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.

• Ezekiel 28:17

  Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.

• Ezekiel 30:6

  Yahweh says: They also who uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: they shall fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh, says the Lord Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 31:10

  Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

• Ezekiel 31:11

  I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.

• Ezekiel 31:12

  Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

• Ezekiel 31:13

  On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches;

• Ezekiel 31:14

  to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, even all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.

• Daniel 4:30

  The king spoke 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?

• Daniel 4:31

  While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you.

• Daniel 4:32

  You shall be driven from men; and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass as oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.”

• Daniel 4:33

  This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

• Daniel 4:34

  At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

• 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 who walk in pride he is able to abase.

• Daniel 11:45

  He shall plant the tents of his palace between the sea and the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and no one shall help him.

• Hosea 5:5

  The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.

• Hosea 7:10

  The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.

• Hosea 10:11

  Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.

• Obadiah 1:3

  The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

• Obadiah 1:4

  Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

• Nahum 3:19

  There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?

• Habakkuk 2:4

  Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

• Habakkuk 2:5

  Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

• Habakkuk 2:9

  Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

• Zephaniah 2:10

  This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.

• Zephaniah 2:15

  This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

• 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 from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.

• 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 Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

• Matthew 20:26

  It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.

• Matthew 20:27

  Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,

• Matthew 23:6

  and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,

• Matthew 23:7

  the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men.

• Matthew 23:8

  But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

• Matthew 23:10

  Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.

• Matthew 23:11

  But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

• Matthew 23:12

  Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

• Mark 7:21

  For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

• Mark 10:43

  But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

• Mark 12:38

  In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,

• Mark 12:39

  and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts:

• Luke 1:51

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

• Luke 1:52

  He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.

• Luke 9:46

  There arose an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.

• Luke 11:43

  Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

• Luke 14:8

  “When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,

• Luke 14:9

  and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.

• Luke 18:14

  I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

• Luke 20:45

  In the hearing of all the people, he said to his disciples,

• Luke 20:46

  “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;

• Luke 20:47

  who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”

• Romans 1:22

  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

• Romans 1:29

  being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

• Romans 1:30

  backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

• Romans 11:17

  But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;

• Romans 11:18

  don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

• Romans 11:19

  You will say then, “Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.”

• Romans 11:20

  True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

• Romans 11:21

  for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

• Romans 11:25

  For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

• Romans 12:3

  For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

• Romans 12:16

  Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

• 1 Corinthians 1:29

  that no flesh should boast before God.

• 1 Corinthians 3:18

  Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

• 1 Corinthians 4:6

  Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

• 1 Corinthians 4:7

  For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

• 1 Corinthians 4:8

  You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

• 1 Corinthians 4:10

  We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

• 1 Corinthians 5:2

  You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

• 1 Corinthians 5:6

  Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

• 1 Corinthians 8:1

  Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

• 1 Corinthians 8:2

  But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.

• 1 Corinthians 10:12

  Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

• 1 Corinthians 13:4

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

• 1 Corinthians 14:38

  But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.

• 2 Corinthians 10:5

  throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

• 2 Corinthians 10:12

  For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

• 2 Corinthians 10:18

  For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

• 2 Corinthians 12:7

  By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

• Galatians 6:3

  For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

• Ephesians 4:17

  This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

• Philippians 2:3

  doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

• 1 Timothy 2:9

  In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;

• 1 Timothy 3:6

  not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

• 1 Timothy 6:3

  If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

• 1 Timothy 6:4

  he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

• 1 Timothy 6:17

  Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

• 2 Timothy 3:2

  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

• 2 Timothy 3:4

  traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

• James 3:1

  Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

• James 4:6

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

• 1 Peter 5:3

  neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

• 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 John 2:16

  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

• Revelation 3:17

  Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

• Revelation 3:18

  I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

• Revelation 18:7

  However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’

• Revelation 18:8

  Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.