Haughty Eyes

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

These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: — read the full passage →

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

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

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

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

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

Lying lips are abomination to the Lord: but they that deal truly are his delight.

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

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

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

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

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

That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. — read the full passage →

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

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

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

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

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:

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.

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.

These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

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

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue.

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.

For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

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.

He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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

These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: — read the full passage →

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

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

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.

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

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:

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: — read the full passage →

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

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.

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

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.

And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

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

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

And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

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.

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.

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

The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

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

My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, — read the full passage →

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.

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:

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?

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

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

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord. — read the full passage →

We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.

Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: — read the full passage →

And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. — read the full passage →

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?

The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

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:

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:

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. — read the full passage →

An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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?

And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. — read the full passage →

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

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

Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger.

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.

A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

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

For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, — read the full passage →

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

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

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

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. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →