Proud people

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• James 4:6

  But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

• 1 Peter 5:5

  Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

• Isaiah 2:11

  The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

• Proverbs 16:18

  Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

• Philippians 2:3

  Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

• Philippians 2:4

  Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

• Proverbs 16:5

  Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

• Psalms 119:21

  Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

• 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.

• 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.

• Luke 4:1–44

  And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread. …

• Luke 18:9–14

  And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. …

• Galatians 6:4

  But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

• Matthew 7:1–2

  Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

• 1 Corinthians 4:7

  For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

• Psalms 10:4

  The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

• Proverbs 27:2

  Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

• Romans 12:16

  Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

• 1 Corinthians 6:19–20

  What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

• Luke 1:51

  He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

• Ephesians 4:26

  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

• Proverbs 18:12

  Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

• Psalms 138:6

  Though the LORD be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.

• Proverbs 13:10

  Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

• Proverbs 10:12

  Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

• 1 Corinthians 13:4

  Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

• Obadiah 1:3

  The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

• James 4:10

  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

• Galatians 6:3

  For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

• Matthew 23:12

  And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

• Proverbs 26:12

  Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

• Proverbs 21:4

  An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

• Proverbs 21:24

  Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath.

• Ezekiel 28:17

  Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

• Psalms 101:5

  Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

• Proverbs 16:19

  Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.

• Psalms 59:12

  For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

• Deuteronomy 8:11–14

  Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; …

• Revelation 1:1–20

  The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand. …