Humility

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James 4:6 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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

Philippians 2:3-11 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. ... HelpfulNot Helpful

Psalm 131:1 ESV / 17 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. HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 14:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:3 ESV / 14 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. HelpfulNot Helpful

Proverbs 22:4 ESV / 14 helpful votes

The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life. HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Peter 5:6 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 12 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. HelpfulNot Helpful

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, HelpfulNot Helpful

Mark 9:33-37 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, What were you discussing on the way? But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.

And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all. And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me. HelpfulNot Helpful

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need. HelpfulNot Helpful

Matthew 23:12 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. HelpfulNot Helpful

Jeremiah 9:23 ESV / 9 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, HelpfulNot Helpful

James 4:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

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Romans 12:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. HelpfulNot Helpful

Romans 8:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. HelpfulNot Helpful

Galatians 5:26 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Corinthians 10:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. HelpfulNot Helpful

Mark 10:44 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. HelpfulNot Helpful

Mark 10:43 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, HelpfulNot Helpful

Jeremiah 45:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And do you seek great things for yourself? Seek them not, for behold, I am bringing disaster upon all flesh, declares the Lord. But I will give you your life as a prize of war in all places to which you may go. HelpfulNot Helpful

Genesis 41:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Joseph answered Pharaoh, It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer. HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Peter 5:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. HelpfulNot Helpful

James 1:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; HelpfulNot Helpful

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. HelpfulNot Helpful

Romans 12:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Romans 11:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you. HelpfulNot Helpful

John 3:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He must increase, but I must decrease. HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 22:24-27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest. And he said to them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves. For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves. HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 18:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted. HelpfulNot Helpful

Matthew 20:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And whoever would be first among you must be your slave, HelpfulNot Helpful

Isaiah 6:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And I said: Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts! HelpfulNot Helpful

Psalm 131:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me. HelpfulNot Helpful

Revelation 4:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying, HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. HelpfulNot Helpful

James 3:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. HelpfulNot Helpful

James 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Timothy 1:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. HelpfulNot Helpful

Philippians 3:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, HelpfulNot Helpful

Philippians 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. HelpfulNot Helpful

Ephesians 3:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, HelpfulNot Helpful

Galatians 3:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Did you suffer so many things in vainif indeed it was in vain? HelpfulNot Helpful

2 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 4 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.

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2 Corinthians 12:5-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses. Though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 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. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. ... HelpfulNot Helpful

2 Corinthians 11:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness. HelpfulNot Helpful

2 Corinthians 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Corinthians 15:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Corinthians 15:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Corinthians 2:1-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Corinthians 1:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So that no human being might boast in the presence of God. HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Corinthians 1:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, HelpfulNot Helpful

Romans 15:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let

each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. HelpfulNot Helpful

Romans 11:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. HelpfulNot Helpful

Romans 7:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. HelpfulNot Helpful

Romans 1:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

That is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine. HelpfulNot Helpful

Acts 10:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here in the presence of God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord. HelpfulNot Helpful

Acts 3:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk? HelpfulNot Helpful

John 13:14-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. HelpfulNot Helpful

John 3:29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. HelpfulNot Helpful

John 1:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie. HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 18:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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! HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 17:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, We are unworthy servants; we have only done what was our duty. HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 14:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, Friend, move up higher. Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 10:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 9:46-48 ESV / 4 helpful votes

An argument arose among them as to which of them was the greatest. But Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their hearts, took a child and put him by his side and said to them, Whoever receives this child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For he who is least among you all is the one who is great. HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 7:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore I did not presume to come to you. But say the word, and let my servant be healed. HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 7:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Jesus went with them. When he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to him, Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 5:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord. HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 1:52 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate; HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 1:43 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? HelpfulNot Helpful

Mark 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he preached, saying, After me comes he who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie. HelpfulNot Helpful

Matthew 25:37-40 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you? And the King will answer them, Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me. HelpfulNot Helpful

Matthew 20:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, HelpfulNot Helpful

Matthew 18:2-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. HelpfulNot Helpful

Matthew 11:29 ESV / 4 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. HelpfulNot Helpful

Proverbs 30:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man. HelpfulNot Helpful

Proverbs 25:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If you have found honey, eat only enough for you, lest you have your fill of it and vomit it. HelpfulNot Helpful

Proverbs 16:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord. HelpfulNot Helpful

Proverbs 15:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A scoffer does not like to be reproved; he will not go to the wise. HelpfulNot Helpful

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 10:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

Psalm 147:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The Lord lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground. HelpfulNot Helpful

Psalm 8:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, HelpfulNot Helpful

2 Chronicles 34:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord. HelpfulNot Helpful

Revelation 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. HelpfulNot Helpful

James 2:12-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Romans 16:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me. HelpfulNot Helpful

Romans 14:10-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; for it is written, As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then each of us will give an account of himself to God. HelpfulNot Helpful

Romans 11:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Lest you be wise in your own sight, I want you to understand this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. HelpfulNot Helpful

John 13:34-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 10:30-37 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jesus replied, A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. ... HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 10:25-28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said to him, What is written in the Law? How do you read it? And he answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself. And he said to him, You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live. HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John answered them all, saying, I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. HelpfulNot Helpful

Matthew 18:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. HelpfulNot Helpful

Matthew 15:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

She said, Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table. HelpfulNot Helpful

Matthew 8:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But the centurion replied, Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. HelpfulNot Helpful

Matthew 5:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Matthew 3:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John would have prevented him, saying, I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me? HelpfulNot Helpful

Zephaniah 3:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord, HelpfulNot Helpful

Zephaniah 3:11 ESV / 3 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. HelpfulNot Helpful

Micah 6:8 ESV / 3 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? HelpfulNot Helpful

Daniel 2:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But as for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because of any wisdom that I have more than all the living, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your mind. HelpfulNot Helpful

Ezekiel 16:63 ESV / 3 helpful votes

That you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord God. HelpfulNot Helpful

Jeremiah 10:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Correct me, O Lord, but in justice; not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing. HelpfulNot Helpful

Jeremiah 10:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I know, O Lord, that the way of man is not in himself, that it is not in man who walks to direct his steps. HelpfulNot Helpful

Jeremiah 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then I said, Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth. HelpfulNot Helpful

Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 3 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. HelpfulNot Helpful

Isaiah 57:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite. HelpfulNot Helpful

Isaiah 51:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the Lord: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug. HelpfulNot Helpful

Isaiah 38:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

What shall I say? For he has spoken to me, and he himself has done it. I walk slowly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul. HelpfulNot Helpful

Isaiah 29:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel. HelpfulNot Helpful

Ecclesiastes 5:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. Therefore let your words be few. HelpfulNot Helpful

Proverbs 30:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth. HelpfulNot Helpful

Proverbs 30:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One. HelpfulNot Helpful

Proverbs 29:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 27:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 25:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For it is better to be told, Come up here, than to be put lower in the presence of a noble. What your eyes have seen HelpfulNot Helpful

Proverbs 25:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not put yourself forward in the king's presence or stand in the place of the great, HelpfulNot Helpful

Proverbs 18:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 15:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 12:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice. HelpfulNot Helpful

Proverbs 3:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Psalm 144:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow. HelpfulNot Helpful

Psalm 144:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

O Lord, what is man that you regard him, or the son of man that you think of him? HelpfulNot Helpful

Psalm 141:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let a righteous man strike meit is a kindness; let him rebuke meit is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds. HelpfulNot Helpful

Psalm 138:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Psalm 86:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A Prayer of David. Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. HelpfulNot Helpful

Psalm 73:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you. HelpfulNot Helpful

Psalm 69:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When the humble see it they will be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive. HelpfulNot Helpful

Psalm 51:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. HelpfulNot Helpful

Psalm 37:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace. HelpfulNot Helpful

Psalm 25:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. HelpfulNot Helpful

Psalm 22:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord! May your hearts live forever!

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Psalm 22:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people. HelpfulNot Helpful

Psalm 10:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear HelpfulNot Helpful

Psalm 9:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted. HelpfulNot Helpful

Psalm 8:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? HelpfulNot Helpful

Job 42:4-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me. I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes. HelpfulNot Helpful

Job 40:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further. HelpfulNot Helpful

Job 40:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. HelpfulNot Helpful

Job 33:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay. HelpfulNot Helpful

Job 32:4-7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he. And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he burned with anger. And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you. I said, Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom. HelpfulNot Helpful

Job 25:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Behold, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure in his eyes; HelpfulNot Helpful

Job 22:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For when they are humbled you say, It is because of pride; but he saves the lowly. HelpfulNot Helpful

Job 10:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction. HelpfulNot Helpful

Job 9:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser. HelpfulNot Helpful

Job 9:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him? HelpfulNot Helpful

Job 7:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Visit him every morning and test him every moment? HelpfulNot Helpful

Job 7:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

What is man, that you make so much of him, and that you set your heart on him, HelpfulNot Helpful

Job 5:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety. HelpfulNot Helpful

Ezra 9:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have

punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this, HelpfulNot Helpful

2 Chronicles 2:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But who is able to build him a house, since heaven, even highest heaven, cannot contain him? Who am I to build a house for him, except as a place to make offerings before him? HelpfulNot Helpful

2 Chronicles 1:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great? HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Chronicles 29:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you. HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Chronicles 17:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have also spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations, O Lord God! HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Chronicles 17:16-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? And this was a small thing in your eyes, O God. You have also spoken

of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have shown me future generations, O Lord God! And what more can David say to you for honoring your servant? For you know your servant. For your servant's sake, O Lord, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, in making known all these great things. There is none like you, O Lord, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. ... HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Kings 21:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house. HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Kings 3:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child. I do not know how to go out or come in. HelpfulNot Helpful

2 Samuel 9:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he paid homage and said, What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog such as I? HelpfulNot Helpful

2 Samuel 7:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. You have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God! HelpfulNot Helpful

2 Samuel 7:18-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God. You have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord God! And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord God! Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it. Therefore you are great, O Lord God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. ... HelpfulNot Helpful

2 Samuel 7:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then King David went in and sat before the Lord and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Samuel 26:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the Lord, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains. HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Samuel 24:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea! HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Samuel 18:18-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And David said to Saul, Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father's clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king? But at the time when Merab, Saul's daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife. Now Saul's daughter Michal loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. Saul thought, Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David a second time, You shall now be my son-in-law. And Saul commanded his servants, Speak to David in private and say, Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now then become the king's son-in-law. ... HelpfulNot Helpful

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. HelpfulNot Helpful

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. HelpfulNot Helpful

Exodus 4:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But Moses said to the Lord, Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue. HelpfulNot Helpful

Exodus 3:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But Moses said to God, Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?

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Genesis 32:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. HelpfulNot Helpful

Genesis 18:32 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there. He answered, For the sake of ten I will not destroy it. HelpfulNot Helpful

Genesis 18:27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Abraham answered and said, Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes. HelpfulNot Helpful

1 John 2:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no liejust as it has taught you, abide in him. HelpfulNot Helpful

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Peter 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: HelpfulNot Helpful

James 4:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? HelpfulNot Helpful

James 1:19-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. HelpfulNot Helpful

James 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity

keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? ... HelpfulNot Helpful

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. HelpfulNot Helpful

Colossians 3:12-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. HelpfulNot Helpful

Colossians 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. HelpfulNot Helpful

Colossians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations HelpfulNot Helpful

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition,

according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. HelpfulNot Helpful

Galatians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. HelpfulNot Helpful

Galatians 6:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. HelpfulNot Helpful

Romans 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. HelpfulNot Helpful

Romans 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. HelpfulNot Helpful

Romans 2:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the

judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O manyou who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourselfthat you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? HelpfulNot Helpful

Acts 20:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. HelpfulNot Helpful

John 13:1-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. ... HelpfulNot Helpful

John 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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. HelpfulNot Helpful

John 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 2 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! ... HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 17:3-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, I repent, you must forgive him. HelpfulNot Helpful

Luke 16:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He also said to the disciples, There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, What is this that I hear about you? Turn in the account of your management, for you can no longer be manager. And the manager said to himself, What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg. I have decided what to do, so that when I am removed from

management, people may receive me into their houses. So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he said to the first, How much do you owe my master? ...

TWELVE WAYS TO HUMBLE YOURSELF

1. Routinely confess your sin to God. (Luke 18:9-14) All of us sin and fall short of the glory of God. However, too few of us have a routine practice of rigorous self-honesty examination. Weekly, even daily, review of our heart and behavior, coupled with confession to God, is an essential practice of humility. 2. Acknowledge your sin to others. (James 3:2, James 5:16) Humility before God is not complete unless there is also humility before man. A true test of our willingness to humble ourselves is being willing to share with others the weaknesses we confess to God. Wisdom, however, dictates that we do so with others that we trust. 3. Take wrong patiently. (1 Peter 3:8-17) This has been a difficult one for me. When something is unjust I want to react and rectify it. However, patiently responding to the unjust accusations and actions of others demonstrates our strength of godly character and provides an opportunity to put on humility. 4. Actively submit to authoritythe good and the bad! (1 Peter 2:18) Our culture does not value submission; rather it promotes individualism. How purposely and actively do you work on submission to those whom God has placed as authorities in your life? Doing so is a good way to humble yourself. 5. Receive correction and feedback from others graciously. (Proverbs 10:17, 12:1) In the Phoenix area, a local East valley pastor was noted for graciously receiving any negative feedback or correction offered. He would simply say "thank you for caring enough to share that with me, I will pray about it and get back to you." Look for the kernel of truth in what people offer you, even if it comes from a dubious source. Always pray, "Lord, what are you trying to show me through this?" 6. Accept a lowly place. (Proverbs 25:6,7) If you find yourself wanting to sit at the head table, wanting others to recognize your contribution or become offended when others are honored or chosen, then pride is present. Purpose to support others being recognized, rather than you. Accept and look for the lowly place; it is the place of humility. 7. Purposely associate with people of lower state than you. (Luke 7:36-39) Jesus was derided by the Pharisees for socializing with the poor and those of lowly state. Our culture is very status conscious and people naturally want to socialize upward. Resist the temptation of being partial to those with status or wealth. 8. Choose to serve others. (Philippians 1:1, 2 Corinthians 4:5, Matthew 23:11) When we serve others, we are serving Gods purposes in their lives. Doing so reduces our focus on ourselves and builds the Kingdom of God instead of the Kingdom of self. When serving another costs us nothing, we should question whether or not it is really servanthood.

9. Be quick to forgive. (Matthew 18: 21-35) Forgiveness is possibly one of the greatest acts of humility we can do. To forgive is to acknowledge a wrong that has been done us and also to further release our right of repayment for the wrong. Forgiveness is denial of self. Forgiveness is not insisting on our way and our justice. 10. Cultivate a grateful heart. (1 Thessalonians 5:18) The more we develop an attitude of gratitude for the gift of salvation and life He has given us, the more true our perspective of self. A grateful heart is a humble heart. 11. Purpose to speak well of others. (Ephesians 4:31-32) Saying negative things about others puts them "one down" and us "one up"a form of pride. Speaking well of others edifies them and builds them up instead of us. Make sure, however, that what you say is not intended as flattery. 12. Treat pride as a condition that always necessitates embracing the cross. (Luke 9:23) It is our nature to be proud and it is Gods nature in us that brings humility. Committing to a lifestyle of daily dying to self and living through Him is the foundation for true humility.