17 Bible Verses about Abasing People

And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thy eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

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

For better it is that it be said to thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldst be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thy 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 of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.

When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; 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, as their congregation hath heard.

The LORD lifteth up the meek: he casteth the wicked down to the ground.

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

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

Thou hast violently thrust at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

But the righteousness which is by faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thy heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down.)

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

He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.