Quotes about Arrogance
I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell—the horn whose appearance was more imposing than the others, with eyes and with a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.
— Daniel 7:20
He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers, nor for the one desired by women, nor for any other god, because he will magnify himself above them all.
— Daniel 11:37
Israel’s arrogance testifies against them; Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; even Judah stumbles with them.
— Hosea 5:5
Israel’s arrogance testifies against them, yet they do not return to the LORD their God; despite all this, they do not seek Him.
— Hosea 7:10
When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.
— Hosea 13:6
You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
— Amos 6:4
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?’
— Obadiah 1:3
and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.
— Habakkuk 2:5
This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
— Zephaniah 2:15
So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”
— Malachi 3:15
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
— Malachi 4:1
For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
— Matthew 23:12