22 Bible Verses about God Opposes The Proud

Though the Lord is exalted, he takes note of the lowly, and recognizes the proud from far away.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.

"Listen! I am opposed to you, you proud city," says the Lord God who rules over all. "Indeed, your day of reckoning has come, the time when I will punish you.

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

The sovereign Lord confirms this oath by his very own life. The Lord, the God who commands armies, is speaking: "I despise Jacob's arrogance; I hate their fortresses. I will hand over to their enemies the city of Samaria and everything in it."

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble."

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

Indeed, the Lord who commands armies has planned a day of judgment, for all the high and mighty, for all who are proud -- they will be humiliated;

The Lord who commands armies planned it -- to dishonor the pride that comes from all her beauty, to humiliate all the dignitaries of the earth.

You deliver oppressed people, but you watch the proud and bring them down.

Love the Lord, all you faithful followers of his! The Lord protects those who have integrity, but he pays back in full the one who acts arrogantly.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all his deeds are right and his ways are just. He is able to bring down those who live in pride.

He has demonstrated power with his arm; he has scattered those whose pride wells up from the sheer arrogance of their hearts.

I will bring the most wicked of the nations and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.

For you deliver oppressed people, but you bring down those who have a proud look.

You reprimand arrogant people. Those who stray from your commands are doomed.

Rise up, O judge of the earth! Pay back the proud!

The Lord tears down the house of the proud, but he maintains the boundaries of the widow.

But when the sovereign master finishes judging Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays.

"I, the Lord, say: 'This shows how I will ruin the highly exalted position in which Judah and Jerusalem take pride.

A mongrel people will live in Ashdod, for I will greatly humiliate the Philistines.

All of the thriving people of the earth will join the celebration and worship; all those who are descending into the grave will bow before him, including those who cannot preserve their lives.