1 Peter 5:6

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1 Peter 5:6

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Summary

1 Peter 5:6

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

Humble

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General references

Luke 17:10

Luke 22:24

Bible References

Humble

Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

I also was acting with hostility against them, to bring them into the land of their enemies—or if their uncircumcised heart becomes humbled so that they then make amends for their iniquity,

“Do you see how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the evil in his days, but I will bring the evil upon his house in his son’s days.”

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you,” declares the Lord.

So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is righteous.”

Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

However, Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

When he was in distress, he entreated the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord his God; he did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet who spoke for the Lord.

A man’s pride will bring him low,
But a humble spirit will obtain honor.

The

proud look of man will be abased

And the loftiness of man will be humbled,
And the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

For thus says the high and exalted One
Who

lives forever, whose name is Holy,

“I dwell on a high and holy place,
And also with the contrite and lowly of spirit
In order to revive the spirit of the lowly
And to revive the heart of the contrite.

Say to the king and the queen mother,
“Take a lowly seat,
For your beautiful crown
Has come down from your head.”

But they have not become contrite even to this day, nor have they feared nor walked in My law or My statutes, which I have set before you and before your fathers.”’

Yet you, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this,

He has told you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk

humbly with your God?

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.

As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

The

But I know that the king of Egypt will not permit you to go, except under compulsion.

Then Moses entreated the Lord his God, and said, “O Lord, why does Your anger burn against Your people whom You have brought out from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?

You have a strong arm;
Your hand is mighty, Your right hand is exalted.

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

That

“Behold, God is exalted in His power;
Who is a teacher like Him?

And all the horns of the wicked He will cut off,
But the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.

In Your name they rejoice all the day,
And by Your righteousness they are exalted.

“Let every valley be lifted up,
And every mountain and hill be made low;
And let the rough ground become a plain,
And the rugged terrain a broad valley;

All the

choice men in all his troops will fall by the sword, and the survivors will be scattered to every wind; and you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken.”

As for you, son of man, groan with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan in their sight.

Whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.

“He has brought down rulers from their thrones,
And has exalted those who were humble.

But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position;

In

‘Vengeance is Mine, and retribution,

In due time their foot will slip;

For the day of their calamity is near,

And the impending things are hastening upon them.’

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at

the proper time.

but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,

General references

So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.’”

And there arose also a dispute among them as to which one of them was regarded to be greatest.