Bible Verses About Pride

13 Bible verses about Pride to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.

Proverbs 16:18

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

Proverbs 11:2

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

James 4:6

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

Proverbs 16:5

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

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.”

Proverbs 8:13

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

Proverbs 18:12

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

Proverbs 29:23

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

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.

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

Galatians 6:3

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

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.

Proverbs 3:34

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

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