What Is Pride According to the Bible?
How Scripture describes pride, why it warns against it, and what humility looks like instead.
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.
But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.
Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honor.
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves.
For who makes you different from anyone else? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall!
Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips.
This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,” declares the LORD.
The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
He mocks proud mockers but shows favor to the humble and oppressed.
For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
Do you see a person wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them.
The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled and human pride brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
In his pride the wicked man does not seek him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.
Where there is strife, there is pride, but wisdom is found in those who take advice.
