Best matchProverbs 16:18–19
18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. 19 It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Bible passages about “pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall”
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Proverbs 18:12
12 Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 29:23
23 A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.
Proverbs 11:2
2 When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.
Sirach 10:12–21
12 It is the beginning of pride when a man departs from the Lord. His heart has departed from him who made him. (WEB) 13 For the beginning of pride is sin. He who keeps it will pour out abomination. For this cause the Lord brought upon them strange calamities and utterly overthrew them. (WEB) 14 The Lord cast down the thrones of rulers and set the lowly in their place. (WEB) 15 The Lord plucked up the roots of nations and planted the lowly in their place. (WEB) 16 The Lord overthrew the lands of nations and destroyed them to the foundations of the earth. (WEB) 17 He took some of them away and destroyed them, and made their memory to cease from the earth. (WEB) 18 Pride has not been created for men, nor wrathful anger for the offspring of women. (WEB) 19 Whose offspring has honor? Human offspring who fear the Lord. Whose offspring has no honor? Human offspring who break the commandments. (WEB) 20 In the midst of kindred he who rules them has honor. Those who fear the Lord have honor in his eyes. (WEB) 21 The fear of the Lord goeth before the obtaining of authority: but roughness and pride is the losing thereof. (KJV)
Sirach 10:7
7 Pride is hateful before the Lord and men. Arrogance is abhorrent in the judgment of both. (WEB)
Daniel 5:20
20 But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.
Obadiah 1:3
3 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, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
Proverbs 21:4
4 Haughty eyes and a proud heart— the guides of the wicked—are sin.
Proverbs 16:5
5 Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.
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