23 Bible Verses about Modesty

For I say, by the race given me, to every one being with you, not to entertain a high opinion of one's self above what is fitting to think: but to think to be discreet, as God has divided the measure of faith to each.

Thou shalt not show thyself proud before the king, and thou shalt not stand in the place of the great. For good to say to thee, Come up hither, rather than humbling thyself before the noble whom thine eye saw.

A man's pride shall bring him low: and honor shall uphold him humble of spirit

And he said to them, The kings of the nations rule over them; and they exercising power over them are called benefactors. And ye not so: but let the greater with you be as the younger; and he leading, as he serving. For which the greater, he reclining, or he serving? is not he reclining and I am in the midst of you as he serving.

But Jesus, having called them, said, Ye know that the rulers rule over their nations, and the great exercise authority over them. 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:read more.
As the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his soul a ransom for many.

And Jesus having called them, says to them, Ye know that they thinking to be first of the nations rule over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them. And it shall not be so among you: but whoever should wish to be great among you, shall be your attendant: And whoever of you should wish to be the first, he shall be the servant of all.read more.
For also the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his soul a ransom for many.

Well; for unbelief were they broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but do thou fear: For if God spared not the young shoots according to nature, how will he either spare thee

And we boast not of things immeasurable, but according to the measure of the rule which the God of measure divided to us, to reach even also to you. For not as reaching to you we stretch beyond ourselves: for also even to you we came before in the good news of Christ: Not boasting in things immeasurable, in the toils of others; and having hope, your faith being increased, to be enlarged in you according to our rule for abundance,read more.
To announce the good hews in things beyond you, not in another's rule to boast for things prepared.

Of such a one will I boast: and of myself I will not boast, except in my weakness. For if I be willing to boast, I shall not be mad; for the truth will I say: and I spare, lest any reckon for me above what he sees me, or what he hears of me.

For let this be in mind among you, which also in Christ Jesus; Who, being in the form of God, thought not robbery to be equal to God But emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, born in the likeness of men:read more.
And found in fashion as man, he humbled himself, being obedient until death, and the death of the cross.

Likewise, ye younger, be subjected to the elders. And all being subject to one another, be wrapped up in humility: for God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

And likewise the women in well-arranged simplicity, with modesty and discretion, arrange themselves; not in tresses, or gold, or pearls, or expensive clothing; But (what become women professing religious worship) with good works.

And Jehovah will say, Because the daughters of Zion were lifted up, and they will go extending the neck and ogling their eyes, going and tripping their going, and binding back their feet: And Jehovah made bald the crown of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah opened the redundance. In that day Jehovah will turn away the ornament of the ankle bands, and the inter-weavings, and the crescents,read more.
The drops, and the chains, and the veils, The head-dresses and the step chains, and the girdles, and the houses of the soul, and the amulets. The signet rings and the rings of the nose. The costly garments and the cloaks, and the mantles, and the caskets. The mirrors and the shirts and the turbans and the veils. And it was instead of a sweet smell there shall be rottenness, and instead of a girdle, a rope, and instead of turned work, baldness, and instead of a variegated garment, a girding of sackcloth a brand instead of beauty.

Whose outside let it not be of the interweaving of hairs, and of putting round of gold, or of putting on of garments, the arrangement;

And Jacob will say, God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaak, Jehovah having said to me, Turn back to thy land and to thy family, and I will do well with thee. I was little from all the kindness and from all the truth which thou didst to thy servant; for with my rod I passed over this Jordan, and now I became into two camps.

And Pharaoh will say to Joseph, I dreamed a dream, and there is none interpreting it, and I heard concerning thee, saying, Thou wilt hear a dream to interpret it And Joseph will answer Pharaoh, saying, Not in me: God. will answer Pharaoh with peace.

And he will say to him, With leave, my Lord, by what shall I save Israel? behold, my thousand destitute in Manasseh, and I the least in my father's house.

And Samuel will answer Saul, and say, I the seeing: go up before me to Bamah, and eat with me this day, and I will send thee away in the morrow, and all that is in thy heart I will announce to thee. And for the asses lost to thee this day three days, thou shall not set thy heart upon them, for they have been found. And to whom all the desire of Israel? is it not to thee and to all thy father's house? And Saul will answer and say, Am not I a son of the Jaminite, from the littleness of the tribes of Israel, and my family small more than all the families of the tribes of Benjamin and wherefore spakest thou to me according to this word?

And king David will come and sit before Jehovah, and say, Who am I Lord Jehovah? and who my house that thou broughtest me even to these?

And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah, behold I knew not to speak: for I a boy.

Daniel answered before the king, and said, The secret that the, king asked, not the wise men, the enchanters, the sacred scribes, the diviners, shall be able to show to the king; But there is a God in the heavens revealing secrets, and he made known to king Nebuchadnezzar what to be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, it is thus: Thou, O king, thy thoughts upon thy bed went up what to be after this: and he revealing secrets made known to thee what to be.read more.
And I not for wisdom that is in me more than all living is this secret revealed to me, but for the reason that they shall make known the interpretation to the king, and thou shalt know the thoughts of thy heart.

And Jesus having entered into Capernaum, a captain of a hundred came to him, and beseeching him, And saying, Lord, my servant has been laid up in the house a paralytic, being grievously tormented. And Jesus says to him, I, having come, will cure him.read more.
And the captain of a hundred having answered said, Lord, I am not fit that thou shouldest enter in under my roof: but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed. For I also am a man under power, having soldiers under me: and I say to this, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does.

And Jesus went with them. And now he being away not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not fit that thou shouldest come under my roof; Therefore neither thought I myself worthy to come to thee: but speak in a word, and my servant shall be healed. For I also am a man set under authority, having soldiers under myself, and I say to this, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes: and to my servant, Do this, and he does.