What the bible says about pride and examples of it.
Some references:
Leviticus 26
19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky
above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze
1 Samuel 2
3 Do not keep talking so proudly or let your mouth speak
such arrogance, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed.
Psalm 18
27 You save the humble but bring low those whose eyes are
haughty.
Psalm 31
23 Love the LORD, all his saints! The LORD preserves the
faithful, but the proud he pays back in full.
Psalm 101
5 … whoever has haughty eyes and a proud heart, him will I not
endure.
Psalm 119
21 You rebuke the arrogant, who are cursed and who stray
from your commands.
Psalm 138
6 Though the LORD is on high, he looks upon the lowly,
but the proud he knows from afar.
Proverbs 3
34 He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble.
Proverbs 6
16 There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are
detestable to him:
17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent
blood.
Proverbs 8
13 To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance,
evil behavior and perverse speech.
Proverbs 10
17 He who heeds discipline shows the way to life, but whoever
ignores correction leads others astray.
Proverbs 11
2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility
comes wisdom.
12 A man who lacks judgment derides his neighbor, but a
man of understanding holds his tongue.
Proverbs 12
15 The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man
listens to advice.
Proverbs 13
10 Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in those
who take advice.
Proverbs 15
12 A mocker resents correction; he will not consult the
wise.
Proverbs 15
25 The LORD tears down the proud man's house but he keeps
the widow's boundaries intact.
Proverbs 16
5 The LORD detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this:
They will not go unpunished.
Proverbs 16
18 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before
a fall.
Proverbs 16
19 Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed
than to share plunder with the proud.
Proverbs 17
19 He who loves a quarrel loves sin…
Proverbs 18
12 Before his downfall a man's heart is proud, but humility
comes before honor.
Proverbs 21
4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked,
are sin!
Proverbs 26
12 Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more
hope for a fool than for him.
Proverbs 26
16 The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men
who answer discreetly.
Proverbs 29
23 A man's pride brings him low, but a man of lowly spirit
gains honor.
Proverbs 30
12 those who are pure in their own eyes and yet are not
cleansed of their filth.
13 those whose eyes are ever so haughty, whose glances
are so disdainful.
Isaiah 2
11 The eyes of the arrogant man will be humbled and the
pride of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
12 The LORD Almighty has a day in store for all the proud
and lofty, for all that is exalted (and they will be humbled),
13 for all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty, and all
the oaks of Bashan,
14 for all the towering mountains and all the high hills,
15 for every lofty tower and every fortified wall,
16 for every trading ship and every stately vessel.
17 The arrogance of man will be brought low and the pride
of men humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 5
15 So man will be brought low and mankind humbled, the
eyes of the arrogant humbled.
Isaiah 13
11 I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for
their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the haughty and will
humble the pride of the ruthless.
Isaiah 14
12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son
of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low
the nations!
13 You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I
will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the
mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make
myself like the Most High."
15 But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths
of the pit.
16 Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate:
"Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble.
Isaiah 23
9 The LORD Almighty planned it, to bring low the pride
of all glory and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.
Isaiah 26
5 He humbles those who dwell on high, he lays the lofty
city low; he levels it to the ground and casts it down to the dust.
Jeremiah 13
15 Hear and pay attention, do not be arrogant, for the
LORD has spoken.
Jeremiah 13
17 But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because
of your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly, overflowing with tears, because
the LORD's flock will be taken captive.
Jeremiah 49
16 The terror you inspire and the pride of your heart have
deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks, who occupy the heights
of the hill. Though you build your nest as high as the eagle's, from there
I will bring you down," declares the LORD.
Daniel 4
37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King
of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just.
And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
Obadiah 1
3 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?'
4 "Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among
the stars, from there I will bring you down," declares the LORD.
Habakkuk 2
4 See, he is puffed up; his desires are not upright-- but the
righteous will live by his faith.
Zephaniah 3
11 On that day you will not be put to shame for all the
wrongs you have done to me, because I will remove from this city those
who rejoice in their pride. Never again will you be haughty on my holy
hill.
Mark 7
22 For from within, out of men's hearts, come…greed,
malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.
Luke 1
51 He has performed mighty deeds with his arm; he has scattered
those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.
52 He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has
lifted up the humble.
Romans 12
3 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 measure of faith God
has given you.
16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but
be willing to associate with people of low position. Do not be conceited.
1 Corinthians 3
18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks
he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that
he may become wise.
1 Corinthians 4
6 Now, brothers, I have applied these things to myself
and Apollos for your benefit, so that you may learn from us the meaning
of the saying, "Do not go beyond what is written." Then you will not take
pride in one man over against another.
7 For who makes you different from anyone else? What do
you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you
boast as though you did not?
8 Already you have all you want! Already you have become
rich! You have become kings--and that without us! How I wish that you really
had become kings so that we might be kings with you!
1 Corinthians 5
6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little
yeast works through the whole batch of dough?
1 Corinthians 8
1 … Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 8
2 The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know
as he ought to know.
1 Corinthians 10
12 So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that
you don't fall!
1 Corinthians 13
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does
not boast, it is not proud.
1 Corinthians 14
38 If he ignores this, he himself will be ignored.
2 Corinthians 10
5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets
itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought
to make it obedient to Christ.
2 Corinthians 10
12 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 are not wise.
2 Corinthians 10
18 For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved,
but the one whom the Lord commends.
2 Corinthians 12
7 To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly
great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger
of Satan, to torment me.
Galatians 6
3 If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing,
he deceives himself.
Philippians 2
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but
in humility consider others better than yourselves.
1 Timothy 6
17 Command those who are rich in this present world not
to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain,
but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for
our enjoyment.
2 Timothy 3
2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather
than lovers of God-
James 4
6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
"God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."
1 Peter 5
5 Young men, in the same way be submissive to those who
are older. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another,
because, "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."