Proverbs 11:2 KJV
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Proverbs 11:2, King James Version
In context
1 A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.
2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
Cross-references
- Proverbs 29:23 A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
- Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
- Proverbs 15:33 The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
- Luke 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
- Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.