Bible Verses About Proud People
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for proud people, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,014 votes, led by James 4:6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Proud People
James 4:6220 votes
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
1 Peter 5:5115 votes
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.
Isaiah 2:1182 votes
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.
Philippians 2:372 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Proverbs 16:1868 votes
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Philippians 2:467 votes
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
Proverbs 8:1358 votes
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 16:558 votes
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Psalms 119:2157 votes
Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
Proverbs 11:254 votes
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Luke 4:1-4446 votes
And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
Proverbs 29:2344 votes
A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Luke 18:9-1442 votes
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
Galatians 6:438 votes
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Matthew 7:1-237 votes
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
1 Corinthians 4:736 votes
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?
Psalms 10:432 votes
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Proverbs 27:228 votes
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Luke 1:5128 votes
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Romans 12:1628 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 6:19-2028 votes
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?
Proverbs 18:1227 votes
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
Ephesians 4:2627 votes
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Proverbs 10:1226 votes
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Psalms 138:624 votes
Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
What does the Bible say about proud people?
Readers most often cite James 4:6 on the subject of proud people. Across 2,014 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 5:5, Isaiah 2:11, Philippians 2:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.