26 Bible Verses about Humbling Oneself

And it was to you for a law forever: in the seventh month, in the tenth of the month ye shall humble your souls, and all work ye shall not do, the native and the stranger sojourning in the midst of you.

But in this tenth of the seventh month, a day of expiation; shall be a holy calling to you, and ye humbled your souls, and brought a sacrifice to Jehovah.

For every soul which shall not be humbled in, that same day, and it was cut off from its people.

A Sabbath of rest it is to you; ye humbled your souls: in the ninth of the month, in the evening, from evening to evening shall ye celebrate your Sabbath.

And in the tenth to this seventh month a holy calling shall be to you: ye afflicted your souls: all work ye shall not do.

And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whoever shall humble himself, shall be exalted.

For whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be exalted.

I say to you, this one went down to his house justified rather than that one: for every one lifting up himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be lifted up.

Be ye humbled before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

Therefore be humbled under the strong hand of God, that he might lift you up) in due measure:

Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself when thou camest into the hand of thy friend; go humble thyself and enlarge thy friend.

Whoever, therefore, should be humbled as this young child, the same is the greater in the kingdom of the heavens.

And I shall call a fast there, upon the river Ahava, to humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us and for our little ones, and for all our substance.

And he will say to me, Thou shalt not fear, Daniel: for from the first day that thou gavest thy heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I came for thy words.

But it shall not be so among you; but whoever should wish to be great among you, let him be your attendant;

And whoever would be first among you, let him be your servant:

Or did I a sin, humbling myself that ye might be exalted, because I announced to you the good news of God gratuitously?

And I was vile yet above this and I was humbled in mine eyes, and with the maids of which thou spakest with them I shall be honored.

Thou sawest that Ahab humbled himself from before me. Because that he humbled. himself from before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: in the days of his sons I will bring the evil upon his house.

Because thy heart was tender and thou wilt be humble from before Jehovah in thy hearing what I spake against this place, and against its inhabitants to be for desolation, and for a curse, and thou wilt rend thy garments and weep before me; and I also heard, says Jehovah.

For what did we fast, and thou sawest not? we humbled our soul and thou wilt not know? Behold, in the day of your fasting ye will find desire, and ye will exact all your labors.

And I, in their being sick, my clothing sackcloth: I humbled my soul in fasting, and my prayer shall be turned back upon my bosom.

Will this be the fast I shall choose? a day for a man to humble his soul? to bend his head as a bulrush, and he will place sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast and a day of acceptance to Jehovah.

And Moses will come, and Aaron, to Pharaoh, and they will say to him, Thus said Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Until long didst thou refuse to humble thyself from before me. Send forth my people and they shall serve me.

And thou his son, O Belshazzar, didst not humble thy heart because that thou knewest all this;

To be a low kingdom, not to be lifted up, to watch his covenant to stand to it