Proud People

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

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.”

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.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

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

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

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

You have rebuked the proud who are cursed, who wander from your commandments.

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

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

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness — read the full passage →

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

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. — read the full passage →

But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

He has shown strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

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

Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

The proud and haughty man, “scoffer” is his name; he works in the arrogance of pride.

A high look, and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, is sin.

Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day; — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

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.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

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

For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.

But Hezekiah didn’t render again according to the benefit done to him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

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

if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind; — read the full passage →

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:

For all these things has my hand made, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.

Yahweh, my heart isn’t haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”

Thus says Yahweh, Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don’t let the rich man glory in his riches;

Thus says Yahweh, Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, don’t let the rich man glory in his riches; — read the full passage →

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! — read the full passage →

One who is greedy stirs up strife; but one who trusts in Yahweh will prosper.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s. — read the full passage →

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out of your midst your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

but let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, says Yahweh.

Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet; — read the full passage →

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh. — read the full passage →

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

then your heart might be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north! — read the full passage →

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.