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Want to know what the Bible says about Proud People? Here are 58 Bible verses about Proud People from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Proverbs 27:2 NIV
Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth;
    an outsider, and not your own lips.
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Proverbs 18:12 NIV
Before a downfall the heart is haughty,
    but humility comes before honor.
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Psalm 138:6 NIV
Though the Lord is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly;
    though lofty, he sees them from afar.
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Proverbs 13:10 NIV
Where there is strife, there is pride,
    but wisdom is found in those who take advice.
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1 Corinthians 13:4 NIV
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
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Obadiah 1:3 NIV
The pride of your heart has deceived you,
    you who live in the clefts of the rocks
    and make your home on the heights,
you who say to yourself,
    ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
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Galatians 6:3 NIV
If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves.
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Matthew 23:12 NIV
For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
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Proverbs 26:12 NIV
Do you see a person wise in their own eyes?
    There is more hope for a fool than for them.
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Proverbs 21:4 NIV
Haughty eyes and a proud heart—
    the unplowed field of the wicked—produce sin.
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Psalm 59:12 NIV
For the sins of their mouths,
    for the words of their lips,
    let them be caught in their pride.
For the curses and lies they utter,
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Romans 12:3 NIV
For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
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James 4:10 NIV
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
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Ezekiel 28:17 NIV
Your heart became proud
    on account of your beauty,
and you corrupted your wisdom
    because of your splendor.
So I threw you to the earth;
    I made a spectacle of you before kings.
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Proverbs 21:24 NIV
The proud and arrogant person —“Mocker” is his name—
    behaves with insolent fury.
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Psalm 101:5 NIV
Whoever slanders their neighbor in secret,
    I will put to silence;
whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart,
    I will not tolerate.
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Deuteronomy 8:11-14 NIV
11 Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. 12 Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, 13 and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, 14 then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.
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Proverbs 16:19 NIV
Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed
    than to share plunder with the proud.
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1 John 2:16 NIV
For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
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Jude 1:16 NIV
These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.
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