11 Bible Verses about Abasement
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I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."
Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.
thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.
Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
From Thematic Bible
Abasement » Of the proud foretold
Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow's borders intact.
For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:
Abasement » Who shall be abased
For there will be a day of Yahweh of Armies for all that is proud and haughty, and for all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low:
How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north! I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!" read more.
Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, "Arise, and let's rise up against her in battle. Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised. The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, 'Who will bring me down to the ground?' read more.
Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there," says Yahweh.
Abasement » Examples of » Sennacherib
Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came forth from his own bowels killed him there with the sword.
Abasement » Examples of » Nineveh
This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is none besides me." How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
Abasement » Examples of » Nebuchadnezzar
The same hour was the thing fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair was grown like eagles' [feathers], and his nails like birds' [claws].
Abasement » Examples of » Belshazzar
Abasement » Examples of » Pharaoh
He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Red Sea.
Abasement » Examples of » Haman
Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, "Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman's house." The king said, "Hang him on it!"
Topics on Abasement
Abasement Of The Proud
Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."
Abasement, Examples Of
Daniel 4:33The same hour was the thing fulfilled on Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair was grown like eagles' [feathers], and his nails like birds' [claws].
Self Abasement
Colossians 2:18Let no one rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,