Bible Verses about

Pride And Selfishness


Philippians 2:3

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

James 3:16

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

Galatians 5:20

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

James 3:14

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Proverbs 21:4

An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

1 John 2:16

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

1 Peter 4:18

And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

James 4:1

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Proverbs 18:1

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.