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Genesis 18:27 — And Abraham replied, "Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am {but} dust and ashes.
Genesis 32:10 — I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff {only} I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.
Numbers 12:3 — (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man who was on the face of the earth.)
Deuteronomy 8:17-18 — ~"Otherwise, you may say in your heart, `My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth.'
~"But you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who is giving you power to make wealth, that He may confirm His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as {it is} this day.
Psalms 94:4 — They pour forth {words,} they speak arrogantly; All who do wickedness vaunt themselves.
Proverbs 11:2 — When pride comes, then comes dishonor, But with the humble is wisdom.
Proverbs 12:15 — The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, But a wise man is he who listens to counsel.
Proverbs 15:33 — The fear of the LORD is the instruction for wisdom, And before honor {comes} humility.
Proverbs 16:19 — It is better to be humble in spirit with the lowly Than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Proverbs 18:12 — Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, But humility {goes} before honor.
Proverbs 25:6-7 — Do not claim honor in the presence of the king, And do not stand in the place of great men;
For it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," Than for you to be placed lower in the presence of the prince, Whom your eyes have seen.
Proverbs 27:2 — Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips.
Proverbs 29:23 — A man's pride will bring him low, But a humble spirit will obtain honor.
Proverbs 30:32 — If you have been foolish in exalting yourself Or if you have plotted {evil,} {put your} hand on your mouth.
Isaiah 66:2 — "For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being," declares the LORD. "But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.
Jeremiah 9:23-24 — Thus says the LORD, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches;
but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD who exercises lovingkindness, justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things," declares the LORD.
Matthew 8:8 — But the centurion said, "Lord, I am not worthy for You to come under my roof, but just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
Matthew 18:2-4 — And He called a child to Himself and set him before them,
and said, "Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
~"Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 20:26-28 — ~"It is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant,
and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be your slave;
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
Matthew 23:12 — ~"Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.
Mark 1:7 — And he was preaching, and saying, "After me One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to stoop down and untie the thong of His sandals.
Mark 9:35-37 — Sitting down, He called the twelve and *said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all."
Taking a child, He set him before them, and taking him in His arms, He said to them,
"Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me."
Mark 10:43-45 — ~"But it is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant;
and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be slave of all.
~"For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
Luke 1:52 — "He has brought down rulers from {their} thrones, And has exalted those who were humble.
Luke 3:16 — John answered and said to them all, "As for me, I baptize you with water; but One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to untie the thong of His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Luke 5:8 — But when Simon Peter saw {that,} he fell down at Jesus' feet, saying, "Go away from me Lord, for I am a sinful man!"
Luke 7:6-7 — Now Jesus {started} on His way with them; and when He was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends, saying to Him, "Lord, do not trouble Yourself further, for I am not worthy for You to come under my roof;
for this reason I did not even consider myself worthy to come to You, but {just} say the word, and my servant will be healed.
Luke 10:20 — ~"Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are recorded in heaven."
Luke 14:10-11 — ~"But when you are invited, go and recline at the last place, so that when the one who has invited you comes, he may say to you, `Friend, move up higher'; then you will have honor in the sight of all who are at the table with you.
~"For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
Luke 18:13-14 — ~"But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, `God, be merciful to me, the sinner!'
~"I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
Luke 22:27 — ~"For who is greater, the one who reclines {at the table} or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines {at the table?} But I am among you as the one who serves.
John 3:30 — ~"He must increase, but I must decrease.
John 13:14 — ~"If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
John 13:16 — ~"Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor {is} one who is sent greater than the one who sent him.
Romans 1:30 — slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
Romans 7:18 — For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good {is} not.
Romans 12:3 — For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
Romans 12:10 — {Be} devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;
Romans 12:16 — Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation.
1 Corinthians 1:27-29 — but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,
and the base things of the world and the despised God has chosen, the things that are not, so that He may nullify the things that are,
so that no man may boast before God.
1 Corinthians 2:1-2 — And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the (One early ms reads {mystery}) testimony of God.
For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.
1 Corinthians 3:18 — Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise.
1 Corinthians 4:7 — For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
1 Corinthians 10:12 — Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.
1 Corinthians 13:4 — Love is patient, love is kind {and} is not jealous; love does not brag {and} is not arrogant,
1 Corinthians 15:10 — But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
2 Corinthians 3:5 — Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as {coming} from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,
2 Corinthians 10:12 — For we are not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding.
2 Corinthians 10:17 — But HE WHO BOASTS IS TO BOAST IN THE LORD.
2 Corinthians 12:7 — Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me--to keep me from exalting myself!
Galatians 5:26 — Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.
Galatians 6:14 — But may it never be that I would boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Ephesians 2:8-9 — For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, {it is} the gift of God;
not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Ephesians 5:21 — and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.
Philippians 2:3-7 — Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;
do not {merely} look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.
Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus,
who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped,
but (I.e. laid aside His privileges) emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, {and} being made in the likeness of men.
Philippians 2:8-11 — Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
James 1:9-11 — But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position;
and the rich man {is to glory} in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.
For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away.
1 Peter 5:5-6 — You younger men, likewise, be subject to {your} elders; and all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, for GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time,
This topic is from the BibleSteak Team.
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