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100 Bible Verses about Haughty Eyes

Proverbs 21:4 ESV / 300 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 250 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Proverbs 6:17 ESV / 199 helpful votes

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 16:18 ESV / 185 helpful votes

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

Psalm 101:5 ESV / 165 helpful votes

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

James 4:6 ESV / 161 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 27:2 ESV / 157 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 12:22 ESV / 152 helpful votes

Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his delight.

Proverbs 30:13 ESV / 144 helpful votes

There are those—how lofty are their eyes, how high their eyelids lift!

Proverbs 8:13 ESV / 144 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

Proverbs 18:12 ESV / 142 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 59:7 ESV / 138 helpful votes

Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.

Proverbs 16:5 ESV / 136 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 19:10 ESV / 135 helpful votes

Lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

Proverbs 21:1-31 ESV / 127 helpful votes

The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart. To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Haughty eyes and a proud heart, the lamp of the wicked, are sin. The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty. ...

Proverbs 1:16 ESV / 125 helpful votes

For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

Psalm 10:4 ESV / 119 helpful votes

In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

Proverbs 29:23 ESV / 118 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 116 helpful votes

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 115 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Psalm 131:1 ESV / 113 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Of David. 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.

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 109 helpful votes

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Proverbs 6:16 ESV / 108 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him:

Psalm 138:6 ESV / 108 helpful votes

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

Psalm 120:2 ESV / 105 helpful votes

Deliver me, O Lord, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

Romans 12:3 ESV / 102 helpful votes

For 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.

Psalm 18:27 ESV / 102 helpful votes

For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.

1 John 2:16 ESV / 98 helpful votes

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

Job 41:34 ESV / 96 helpful votes

He sees everything that is high; he is king over all the sons of pride.”

Psalm 10:5 ESV / 92 helpful votes

His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.

Matthew 5:3 ESV / 91 helpful votes

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Proverbs 16:19 ESV / 91 helpful votes

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Proverbs 6:16-17 ESV / 90 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 21:24 ESV / 86 helpful votes

“Scoffer” is the name of the arrogant, haughty man who acts with arrogant pride.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 85 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Romans 12:16 ESV / 85 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 26:12 ESV / 85 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 3:16 ESV / 84 helpful votes

The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet,

Proverbs 5:1-23 ESV / 84 helpful votes

My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; ...

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 82 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Zephaniah 3:11 ESV / 82 helpful votes

“On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 78 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Isaiah 2:11 ESV / 77 helpful votes

The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

2 Samuel 22:28 ESV / 77 helpful votes

You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

Proverbs 13:10 ESV / 75 helpful votes

By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 73 helpful votes

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

Ezekiel 16:50 ESV / 71 helpful votes

They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.

Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 71 helpful votes

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

Isaiah 10:12 ESV / 69 helpful votes

When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.

James 4:10 ESV / 68 helpful votes

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Isaiah 24:4 ESV / 68 helpful votes

The earth mourns and withers; the world languishes and withers; the highest people of the earth languish.

Isaiah 5:15 ESV / 68 helpful votes

Man is humbled, and each one is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low.

Psalm 31:18 ESV / 68 helpful votes

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

Proverbs 3:34 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.

Proverbs 6:1-35 ESV / 66 helpful votes

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler. ...

Isaiah 13:11 ESV / 65 helpful votes

I 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 2:12 ESV / 64 helpful votes

For the Lord of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up—and it shall be brought low;

1 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 63 helpful votes

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?

Luke 11:34 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness.

Isaiah 5:21 ESV / 62 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:1-33 ESV / 62 helpful votes

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit. Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established. The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished. ...

Jeremiah 48:29 ESV / 61 helpful votes

We have heard of the pride of Moab— he is very proud— of his loftiness, his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.

Isaiah 2:17 ESV / 61 helpful votes

And the haughtiness of man shall be humbled, and the lofty pride of men shall be brought low, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

Proverbs 15:33 ESV / 61 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.

Psalm 5:6 ESV / 61 helpful votes

You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

1 Timothy 6:17 ESV / 60 helpful votes

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 59 helpful votes

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ ...

Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 59 helpful votes

And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Obadiah 1:3 ESV / 59 helpful votes

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”

Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 58 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 57 helpful votes

So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited.

Matthew 11:29 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Daniel 5:20 ESV / 57 helpful votes

But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him.

Jeremiah 9:23 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,

Proverbs 22:1-29 ESV / 57 helpful votes

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold. The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the Maker of them all. The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it. The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. ...

Proverbs 6:18 ESV / 57 helpful votes

A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil,

John 3:16 ESV / 56 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 56 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Hosea 7:10 ESV / 56 helpful votes

The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him, for all this.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 56 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Proverbs 18:1-24 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment. A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. When wickedness comes, contempt comes also, and with dishonor comes disgrace. The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook. It is not good to be partial to the wicked or to deprive the righteous of justice. ...

Psalm 10:2 ESV / 56 helpful votes

In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.

Luke 14:11 ESV / 55 helpful votes

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

1 Samuel 2:3 ESV / 55 helpful votes

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.

2 Timothy 3:4 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 54 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Zephaniah 2:3 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the Lord.

Isaiah 23:9 ESV / 54 helpful votes

The Lord of hosts has purposed it, to defile the pompous pride of all glory, to dishonor all the honored of the earth.

Proverbs 6:19 ESV / 54 helpful votes

A false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Galatians 6:4 ESV / 53 helpful votes

But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.

Isaiah 3:1-26 ESV / 53 helpful votes

For behold, the Lord God of hosts is taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah support and supply, all support of bread, and all support of water; the mighty man and the soldier, the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms. And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And the people will oppress one another, every one his fellow and every one his neighbor; the youth will be insolent to the elder, and the despised to the honorable. ...

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 53 helpful votes

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Philippians 2:5 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,

Psalm 119:21 ESV / 51 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Proverbs 14:3 ESV / 50 helpful votes

By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.

2 Peter 2:18 ESV / 49 helpful votes

For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.

1 Peter 5:5-7 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Ezekiel 16:49-50 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.

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