17 Bible Verses about Abasing People

Thou wilt save the poor in spirit; but thine eyes are upon the haughty that thou may bring them down.

Therefore thou wilt save the humble people; but wilt bring down high looks.

A man's pride shall bring him low, but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

for it is better that it be said unto thee, Come up here than that thou should be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.

And thou shalt be brought down and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be as that of a spiritist, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

The wise in heart will receive the commandments, but he who speaks foolishness shall fall.

He that winks with the eye causes sorrow, and he that speaks foolishness shall fall.

And I shall bring thee down with those that descend into the grave, with the people of the age, and shall set thee in the lowest part of the earth, as the deserts of old, with those that go down to the grave, that thou not be inhabited again; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;

When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them according to what has been heard in their congregations.

The LORD lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked down to the earth.

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of the grave; bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.

But God is the judge; he puts down one and sets up another.

Thou hast thrust at me with violence that I might fall, but the LORD helped me.

Yet thou shalt be cast down to Sheol, to the sides of the pit.

But thus saith the righteousness which is by faith, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven (that is, to bring the Christ down from above)?

And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to Hades, for if the mighty works which have been done in thee had been done in those of Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

He has put down the mighty from their thrones and exalted the humble.