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Pride · KJV

Bible Verses About Pride

7 key scriptures

Pride goeth before destruction. These verses warn against a haughty spirit and call for the humility that God delights to honour.

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
James 4:6
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Proverbs 11:2
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs 29:23
A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
1 John 2:16
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.
Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Galatians 6:3
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.