29 Bible Verses about Proud People
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Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all the gods, {even in the matter where they the Egyptians dealt arrogantly against the Israelites}."
So I spoke to you, but you did not listen; you rebelled against the {command of Yahweh}; you behaved presumptuously, and you went up into the hill country.
"But they and our ancestors acted arrogantly and stiffened their neck and did not listen to your commandments.
You warned them so that they would return to your law. Yet they acted arrogantly and did not listen to your commandments but sinned against your judgments that a person must do so that they may live. They turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not listen.
You have indeed defeated Edom and your heart is lifted up; enjoy the honor and stay home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall and Judah with you?"
And all of the people knew it, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria in pride and arrogance of heart, saying,
And they were proud, and they did a detestable thing {before me}, and I removed them {because} I saw [it].
We have heard [of] the pride of Moab--exceedingly proud-- [of] his arrogance, pride, and insolence; {his boasting is not true}.
We have heard [of] the pride of Moab --[he is] very proud-- his height, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.
I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who wants to be first [among] them, does not acknowledge us.
And you are inflated with pride, and should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who has done this deed would be removed from your midst?
Do not let a foot of pride come against me, nor let a wicked hand make me to wander homeless.
"Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Because your heart was haughty, and you said, 'I [am] a god; I sit [in the] seat of [the] gods, I sit in [the] heart of [the] seas!' But you are a human, not a god, and you gave your heart to be like [the] heart of a god.
And you magnified yourself against me with your {insolent speech}, and you spoke voluminously against me [with] your words--I heard!
He will not pay respect to the gods of his ancestors, or to [the] darling of women, and not to any god will he pay respect, for he will consider himself great over all [gods].
And by his planning he will make a success of deceit by his hand, and in his {mind} he will {boast}, and in [their] ease he will destroy many, and [even] against [the] prince of princes he will rise up, and he will be broken, [but] not by human hands.
When the multitude is carried off, his heart will be exalted and he will overthrow {tens of thousands}, but he will not prevail.
"Then the king will do {as he pleases}, and he will exalt himself and will consider himself above any god, and he will speak horrendous things {against} [the] God of gods, yet he will succeed until [the period] of anger is finished, for [what] is determined will be done.
When I fed them, they were satisfied; they were satisfied and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.
Look! His spirit within him is puffed up; it is not upright. But the righteous shall live by his faithfulness.
For I am afraid lest somehow [when I] arrive, I will not find you as I want, and I may be found by you as you do not want. [I am afraid] lest somehow [there will be] strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, pride, disorder.
And a mouth was given to him speaking great [things] and blasphemies, and authority to act was given to him [for] forty-two months.
Because you are raging against me, and your arrogance has come up in my ears, I will put my nose ring in your nose and my bridle in your mouth. And I will turn you back on the way that you have come.
Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend [the] bow. Encamp all around her, there must not be for her an escape. Take revenge on her according to her deeds. According to all that she has done, [so] do to her. For against Yahweh she has behaved insolently, against the Holy One of Israel.
One who slanders his neighbor in secret, him I will destroy. [One] haughty of eyes and {arrogant} of heart, him I will not endure.
The pride of Israel testifies {against him}, and Israel and Ephraim stumble in their guilt, and Judah stumbles with them.
The pride of Israel {testifies against him}-- they do not return to Yahweh their God; they do not seek him for all of this.
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- Proud (119 instances)