Quotes About Pride

We are not commending ourselves to you again. Instead, we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who take pride in appearances rather than in the heart.

Great is my confidence in you; great is my pride in you; I am filled with encouragement; in all our troubles my joy overflows.

We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they show their ignorance.

In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.

Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.

To my shame I concede that we were too weak for that! Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone else dares to boast about.

Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.

Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen. Such a person is puffed up without basis by his unspiritual mind.

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.

he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and semantics, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions,

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.

But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.

Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

I have written to the church about this, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not accept our instruction.

These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.

As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ëI sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.í

saying: “Woe, woe to the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!