22 Bible Verses about God Opposes The Proud
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For though LORD is high, yet he has respect to the lowly. But he knows the haughty from afar.
The fear of LORD is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Behold, I am against thee, O thou proud one, says the Lord, LORD of hosts, for thy day has come, the time that I will visit thee.
Lord LORD has sworn by himself, says LORD, the God of hosts: I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces, therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is therein.
But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, God is opposed to the arrogant, but gives grace to the lowly.
Likewise younger men should be subordinate to the elder men. And all being subordinate to each other, clothe yourselves with humility, because God sets himself against the haughty, but gives grace to the lowly.
For there shall be a day of LORD of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up, and it shall be brought low,
LORD of hosts has purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
And the afflicted people thou will save, but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou may bring them down.
O love LORD, all ye his sanctified. LORD preserves the faithful, and plentifully repays him who deals proudly.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are truth, and his ways justice. And he is able to abase those who walk in pride.
Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they shall possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease, and their holy places shall be profaned.
For thou will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes thou will bring down.
Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth. Render to the proud a recompense.
LORD will root up the house of the proud, but he will establish the border of the widow.
Therefore it shall come to pass, that, when LORD has performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
Thus says LORD, After this manner I will mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who cannot keep his soul alive.