Pride (Bible Verses)

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James 4:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

Proverbs 6:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 16:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

2 Timothy 3:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Jude 1:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

Proverbs 16:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

Proverbs 11:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

1 Corinthians 3:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Luke 18:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

1 Corinthians 8:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

Proverbs 18:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

Luke 18:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

2 Peter 2:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

Proverbs 26:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Ezekiel 28:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

Galatians 5:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

James 4:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

Isaiah 3:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

Obadiah 1:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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?

Isaiah 29:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

Daniel 4:30 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?

Obadiah 1:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

Amos 4:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

Luke 10:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.

Ezekiel 31:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

Ezekiel 16:49 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Psalms 10:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

Ezekiel 28:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

Job 15:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.

Ezekiel 28:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

1 Samuel 25:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?

Habakkuk 2:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

Psalms 10:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Proverbs 17:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

2 Corinthians 12:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.

Isaiah 39:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah shewed them not.

2 Chronicles 32:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Isaiah 14:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

Isaiah 47:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

Proverbs 16:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Ezekiel 28:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

2 Kings 14:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thine heart hath lifted thee up: glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

Psalms 73:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

Jeremiah 49:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?

Isaiah 65:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

Proverbs 17:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 30:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

Isaiah 39:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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At that time Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.

Ezekiel 31:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

2 Chronicles 25:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

Isaiah 10:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

Isaiah 39:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

Jeremiah 49:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.

Ezekiel 28:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

Romans 2:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

Proverbs 26:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honour to a fool.

Isaiah 23:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

Jeremiah 22:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

Isaiah 2:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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:

Ezekiel 31:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

Proverbs 21:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

2 Samuel 14:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

Ezekiel 31:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

Habakkuk 2:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

1 Samuel 25:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.

Ezekiel 16:50 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

Psalms 10:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

Jeremiah 48:30 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I know his wrath, saith the LORD; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.

Daniel 4:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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I Nebuchadnezzar was at rest in mine house, and flourishing in my palace:

Isaiah 3:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

Ezekiel 28:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

Ezekiel 28:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

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