17 Bible Verses about Abasing People

You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.

For you save a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.

One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

for it is better to be told, "Come up here," than to be put lower in the presence of a noble.What your eyes have seen

And you will be brought low; from the earth you shall speak, and from the dust your speech will be bowed down; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and from the dust your speech shall whisper.

The wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

Whoever winks the eye causes trouble, but a babbling fool will come to ruin.

then I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living.

As they go, I will spread over them my net; I will bring them down like birds of the heavens; I will discipline them according to the report made to their congregation.

The LORDlifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground.

But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.

I was pushed hard, so that I was falling, but the LORD helped me.

But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.

But the righteousness based on 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? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.

he has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate;