Bible Verses About The Spirit of Pride
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for the spirit of pride, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 10,111 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 The Spirit of Pride
James 4:6235 votes
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Proverbs 16:18228 votes
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 16:5222 votes
Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Proverbs 29:23222 votes
A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Proverbs 8:13213 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 11:2205 votes
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Psalms 10:4166 votes
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Proverbs 21:4162 votes
An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.
Proverbs 13:10159 votes
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
Romans 12:16158 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.
Proverbs 18:12145 votes
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
Proverbs 16:19140 votes
Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Romans 12:2129 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Philippians 2:3127 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Romans 12:3124 votes
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.
Proverbs 16:18-19122 votes
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
1 Corinthians 4:7121 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?
Proverbs 26:12117 votes
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Psalms 138:6111 votes
Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
1 John 2:16110 votes
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.
1 Timothy 3:6106 votes
Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Proverbs 21:24100 votes
Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.
Galatians 6:3100 votes
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Daniel 5:2099 votes
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:
1 Peter 5:598 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.
What does the Bible say about the spirit of pride?
Readers most often cite James 4:6 on the subject of the spirit of pride. Across 10,111 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 16:18, Proverbs 16:5, Proverbs 29:23. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.