17 Bible Verses about Abasing People

You deliver oppressed people, but you watch the proud and bring them down.

For you deliver oppressed people, but you bring down those who have a proud look.

A person's pride will bring him low, but one who has a lowly spirit will gain honor.

for it is better for him to say to you, "Come up here," than to put you lower before a prince, whom your eyes have seen.

You will fall; while lying on the ground you will speak; from the dust where you lie, your words will be heard. Your voice will sound like a spirit speaking from the underworld; from the dust you will chirp as if muttering an incantation.

The wise person accepts instructions, but the one who speaks foolishness will come to ruin.

The one who winks his eye causes trouble, and the one who speaks foolishness will come to ruin.

then I will bring you down to bygone people, to be with those who descend to the pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand in the land of the living.

I will throw my bird net over them while they are flying, I will bring them down like birds in the sky; I will discipline them when I hear them flocking together.

The Lord lifts up the oppressed, but knocks the wicked to the ground.

But you, O God, will bring them down to the deep Pit. Violent and deceitful people will not live even half a normal lifespan. But as for me, I trust in you.

For God is the judge! He brings one down and exalts another.

"You aggressively attacked me and tried to knock me down, but the Lord helped me.

But you were brought down to Sheol, to the remote slopes of the pit.

But the righteousness that is by faith says: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down)

And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be thrown down to Hades! For if the miracles done among you had been done in Sodom, it would have continued to this day.

He has brought down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up those of lowly position;