World’s Top 19 Bible Verses About Arrogance

The words arrogant, arrogance, and proud are mentioned several times in the Bible and in practically all occurrences, it is a behavior or attitude that is highly disliked by God. The Bible tells us those who are arrogant are an abomination to Him! Here are the world’s top 19 Bible verses about arrogance.  

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Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

- Proverbs 26:12

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You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from your commandments.

- Psalm 119:21

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Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!

- Isaiah 5:21

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Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.

- 1 Corinthians 3:18

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O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvelous for me.

- Psalm 131:1

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Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

- Proverbs 18:12

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If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.

- Proverbs 30:32

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But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

- James 4:6

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Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

- Proverbs 27:2

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The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

- Proverbs 10:8

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Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.

- Romans 12:16

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Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

- Proverbs 16:18

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One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

- Proverbs 29:23

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For though the LORD is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.

- Psalm 138:6

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Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure.

- Psalm 101:5

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Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.

- Job 40:12

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Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the LORD; be assured, he will not go unpunished.

- Proverbs 16:5

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Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin.

- Proverbs 21:4

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Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

- 1 Corinthians 13:4

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Total Quotes Found: 19

5 Stories From The Bible About Arrogance

Here are 5 stories from the Bible about arrogance.

Hannah’s Prayer

When Hannah was praying to God for a child, as she was barren, she prayed in such humility, telling herself, “Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed” (1 Samuel 2:3).  What can we ever boast about except that we are sinners?  We can only boast in the God of grace poured out through Jesus Christ. This leaves no room for pride or arrogance, but humility and thankfulness before God.

No Boasting

The Apostle Paul, as great a missionary and apostle as he was, remained humble, so when the church at Corinth became a little too proud of their spiritual gifts, he reminded them, “For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it” (1 Corinthians 4:7)? If we received it, we can only boast in the One Who gave it!  This leaves no room for us to boast about it or show arrogance before others because we’re saved.  We’re not better…only better off.

Thinking Soberly

How encouraging the Apostle Paul is by writing that it is “by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned” (Romans 12:3).  Paul had every reason to see himself as superior, but that’s not who Paul was, so we too should never think more highly of ourselves than we think about others.

The Significance of Others  

What we do is either motivated by the Spirit of God or by the flesh, therefore Paul says we are to “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves” (Philippians 2:3).  You can still be esteeming others better than yourself and still be arrogant, but not when we your motivation is only from God and not “from selfish ambition or conceit.” You can be nice to the boss in person but snub him or her when they leave the room, but for Christians, there is no excuse for such behavior.  That action comes from arrogance and pride.

Pride and the Fall

If we humble ourselves before God, God will exalt us on the Day of Visitation.  Contrary to the world’s ways, God resists the proud and only gives grace to the humble (James 4:6), but if people refuse to receive Christ as their Savior, the day will come when God “will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless” (Isaiah 13:11).

Arrogance doesn’t fit into the Christian’s life.  Rather it should be the opposite; humility, love, thankfulness, and esteeming or treating others as more significant than ourselves.  Jesus Christ did not grasp onto His glory but rather came to serve and to give His life as a ransom for many (Mark 10:45).

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