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Pride & humility in the Bible

Haughtiness brought low, and the humble lifted up.

190 King James verses match this subject. The chapters below hold the heaviest concentration of them, so you can read each passage where it actually sits.

Chapters to read

Matched on the words themselves in the King James text. Where a word is also a name, it can point to more than one person or place, so read the chapter to see which.

Proverbs 163 VERSES

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

Isaiah 161 VERSE

We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.

Jeremiah 481 VERSE

We have heard the pride of Moab,(he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.

1 Peter 52 VERSES

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.

Psalms 1196 VERSES

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

Isaiah 23 VERSES

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 212 VERSES

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

Jeremiah 134 VERSES

Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

James 42 VERSES

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

Psalms 104 VERSES

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

2 Chronicles 333 VERSES

And humbled not himself before the LORD, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but Amon trespassed more and more.

2 Chronicles 123 VERSES

And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

Deuteronomy 83 VERSES

And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

Nehemiah 93 VERSES

And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.

Psalms 313 VERSES

Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

Jeremiah 503 VERSES

Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.

Ezekiel 163 VERSES

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Proverbs 181 VERSE

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

2 Chronicles 321 VERSE

Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

Zephaniah 31 VERSE

In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

Ephesians 41 VERSE

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Colossians 31 VERSE

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;

Psalms 1381 VERSE

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

Proverbs 111 VERSE

When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

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