Results of pride

Pride leads to other forms of evil

Self-deception

Galatians 6:3 HCSB

For if anyone considers himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

See also Dt 8:17–18; Is 16:6; Is 47:10; Je 49:16; 1 Co 8:2; 1 Ti 6:3–4

Spiritual blindness

Jeremiah 43:2 HCSB

then Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the other arrogant men responded to Jeremiah, “You are speaking a lie! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to live there for a while!’

See also Dt 8:14; Ne 9:16; Ne 9:29

A hard heart

Psalm 36:2 HCSB

for in his own eyes he flatters himself too much to discover and hate his sin.

See also Ps 10:3; Ps 52:1; Da 5:20

A malicious spirit

Psalm 119:85 HCSB

The arrogant have dug pits for me; they violate Your instruction.

See also Ps 73:8; Ps 140:5

Contempt for others

Psalm 123:4 HCSB

We’ve had more than enough scorn from the arrogant and contempt from the proud.

See also Ps 119:51; Pr 21:24

Quarrelling

Proverbs 13:10 HCSB

Arrogance leads to nothing but strife, but wisdom is gained by those who take advice.

Violence

Psalm 73:6 HCSB

Therefore, pride is their necklace, and violence covers them like a garment.

See also Es 3:5–6; Ps 86:14

Injustice

Psalm 119:78 HCSB

Let the arrogant be put to shame for slandering me with lies; I will meditate on Your precepts.

See also Ps 56:2

Oppression

Psalm 10:2 HCSB

In arrogance the wicked relentlessly pursue the afflicted; let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

See also Ps 119:122; Hab 2:4–5

Contempt for God

Psalm 10:4 HCSB

In all his scheming, the wicked arrogantly thinks: “There is no accountability, since God does not exist.”

See also 2 Ki 19:22

Pride may be accompanied by temporary prosperity

Psalm 73:3 HCSB

For I envied the arrogant; I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

See also Ps 10:5

Pride ends in disaster

Proverbs 16:5 HCSB

Everyone with a proud heart is detestable to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.

See also 2 Sa 22:28; Job 40:11–12; Ps 31:23; Ps 101:5; Pr 11:2; Pr 15:25; Pr 26:12; Pr 29:23; Is 2:11–12; Is 2:17; Is 13:11; Is 26:5; Zep 3:11; Mal 4:1; Lk 1:51–52; 1 Ti 3:6

Examples of the proud being humbled

Pharaoh:

Ex 14:28; Ne 9:10

2 Ch 26:16 Uzziah

Egypt:

Eze 30:6; Eze 32:12

Da 4:30–33 Nebuchadnezzar; Da 5:30 Belshazzar; Am 6:8; Zep 2:15 Nineveh; Zec 9:6; Zec 10:11 Assyria; Mt 11:23 Capernaum; Ac 12:21–23 Herod; Re 18:7–8 Babylon the Great

The king of Assyria:

2 Ch 32:21; Is 10:12; Is 10:16

2 Ch 32:25 Hezekiah; Es 7:10 Haman; Is 3:16–17 the women of Zion

The king of Babylon:

Is 13:19; Is 14:11–15

Is 23:9; Is 25:10–12 Moab; Is 28:1–3 Samaria

Babylon:

Is 47:10–11; Je 50:31–32

Judah and Jerusalem:

Je 13:9; Eze 7:24

Eze 16:49–50 Sodom

The king of Tyre:

Eze 28:5–9; Eze 28:17