Quotes About Pride

Through his craft and by his hand, he will cause deceit to prosper, and in his own mind he will make himself great. In a time of peace he will destroy many, and he will even stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be broken off, but not by human hands.

When the army is carried off, the king of the South will be proud in heart and will cast down tens of thousands, but he will not triumph.

He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers, nor for the one desired by women, nor for any other god, because he will magnify himself above them all.

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”

When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.

Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?

The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacobís pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”

you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ëDid we not take Karnaim by our own strength?í

The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.

“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ëWho can bring me down to the ground?í

Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.

But you should not gloat in that day, your brotherís day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.

Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I am planning against this nation a disaster from which you cannot free your necks. Then you will not walk so proudly, for it will be a time of calamity.

Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?

Then they sweep by like the wind and pass on through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”

Look at the proud one; his soul is not upright—but the righteous will live by faith—

This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

On that day you will not be put to shame for any of the deeds by which you have transgressed against Me. For then I will remove from among you those who rejoice in their pride, and you will never again be haughty on My holy mountain.

Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.

A mixed race will occupy Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.

They will pass through the sea of distress and strike the waves of the sea; all the depths of the Nile will dry up. The pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.