100 Bible Verses about Proud People

Here are 100 Bible verses about proud people, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

James 4:6 KJV

⁶ But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Peter 5:5 KJV

⁵ Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Isaiah 2:11 KJV

¹¹ The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Philippians 2:3 KJV

³ Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Philippians 2:4 KJV

⁴ Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 16:18 KJV

¹⁸ Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 8:13 KJV

¹³ The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Psalm 119:21 KJV

²¹ Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 16:5 KJV

⁵ Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 11:2 KJV

² When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Luke 4:1-44 KJV

¹ And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, ² Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. ³ And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. ⁴ And Jesus answered him, …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 29:23 KJV

²³ A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Luke 18:9-14 KJV

⁹ And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: ¹⁰ Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. ¹¹ The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Galatians 6:4 KJV

⁴ But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Matthew 7:1-2 KJV

¹ Judge not, that ye be not judged. ² For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 4:7 KJV

⁷ For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Psalm 10:4 KJV

⁴ The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 KJV

¹⁹ What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? ²⁰ For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Romans 12:16 KJV

¹⁶ Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Luke 1:51 KJV

⁵¹ He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 27:2 KJV

² Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 4:26 KJV

²⁶ Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 18:12 KJV

¹² Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 10:12 KJV

¹² Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 13:10 KJV

¹⁰ Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Psalm 138:6 KJV

⁶ Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Galatians 6:3 KJV

³ For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 13:4 KJV

⁴ Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Obadiah 1:3 KJV

³ The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, 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?

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

James 4:10 KJV

¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Matthew 23:12 KJV

¹² And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 26:12 KJV

¹² Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 21:4 KJV

⁴ An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 21:24 KJV

²⁴ Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Psalm 101:5 KJV

⁵ Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Romans 12:3 KJV

³ For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ezekiel 28:17 KJV

¹⁷ Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 16:19 KJV

¹⁹ Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Deuteronomy 8:11-14 KJV

¹¹ Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: ¹² Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; ¹³ And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 John 2:16 KJV

¹⁶ 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 of the world.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 10:31 KJV

³¹ Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Psalm 59:12 KJV

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 John 2:15-17 KJV

¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ 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 of the world. ¹⁷ And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

John 8:44 KJV

⁴⁴ Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Mark 7:21-23 KJV

²¹ For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, ²² Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: ²³ All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Revelation 1:1-20 KJV

¹ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: ² Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. ³ Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Timothy 1:7 KJV

⁷ For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Galatians 5:19-21 KJV

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹ Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 KJV

⁴ Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, ⁵ Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Luke 14:11 KJV

¹¹ For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Isaiah 2:12 KJV

¹² For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Jude 1:16 KJV

¹⁶ These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV

⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: ⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Corinthians 5:12 KJV

¹² For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Romans 15:4 KJV

⁴ For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Isaiah 23:9 KJV

⁹ The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Isaiah 13:11 KJV

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.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Chronicles 32:25-26 KJV

²⁵ But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem. ²⁶ Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV

¹⁴ If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Colossians 3:12 KJV

¹² Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Micah 6:8 KJV

⁸ He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Isaiah 16:6 KJV

⁶ We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ecclesiastes 7:8 KJV

⁸ Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 25:27 KJV

²⁷ It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 3:34 KJV

³⁴ Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Leviticus 26:19 KJV

¹⁹ And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Revelation 3:17 KJV

¹⁷ Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Philippians 2:2-4 KJV

² Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. ³ Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. ⁴ Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Ephesians 6:12 KJV

¹² For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Corinthians 4:6 KJV

⁶ And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Daniel 5:20 KJV

²⁰ But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Isaiah 66:2 KJV

² For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Psalm 131:1 KJV

¹ Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Peter 5:6 KJV

⁶ Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Mark 9:35 KJV

³⁵ And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Habakkuk 2:4 KJV

⁴ Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Jeremiah 9:23-24 KJV

²³ Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: ²⁴ But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Jeremiah 9:23 KJV

²³ Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Isaiah 14:12-14 KJV

¹² How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! ¹³ For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: ¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Isaiah 5:21 KJV

²¹ Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 28:25 KJV

²⁵ He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 27:1 KJV

¹ Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

2 Chronicles 26:16 KJV

¹⁶ But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Genesis 2:1-25 KJV

¹ Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. ² And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. ³ And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. ⁴ These are the generations …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 John 2:16-17 KJV

¹⁶ 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 of the world. ¹⁷ And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Matthew 5:5 KJV

⁵ Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Zephaniah 3:11 KJV

¹¹ In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Jeremiah 9:24 KJV

²⁴ But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Isaiah 10:12 KJV

¹² Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Isaiah 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶ Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: ¹⁷ Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Proverbs 6:16-19 KJV

¹⁶ These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: ¹⁷ A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸ An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, ¹⁹ A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Psalm 10:3-4 KJV

³ For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth. ⁴ The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 Chronicles 16:11 KJV

¹¹ Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Deuteronomy 8:14 KJV

¹⁴ Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Revelation 12:9 KJV

⁹ And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Luke 16:15 KJV

¹⁵ And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Luke 10:18 KJV

¹⁸ And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Isaiah 14:13-14 KJV

¹³ For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: ¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

Isaiah 14:12-15 KJV

¹² How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! ¹³ For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: ¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most …

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse

1 John 1:9 KJV

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Full Chapter | Parallel Translations | Explain Verse