17 Bible Verses about Abasing People

And the people that are in adversity, thou shalt help. And on the proud shalt thou cast thine eyes.

For thou shalt save the people that are in adversity, and shalt bring down the high looks of the proud. {TYNDALE: And the people that are in adversity, thou shalt help. And on the proud shalt thou cast thine eyes.}

After pride cometh a fall; but a lowly spirit bringeth great worship.

Better it is that it be said unto thee, "Come up hither," than thou to be set down in the presence of the prince whom thou seest with thine eyes.

And thou shalt be brought low, and speak out of the earth, and thy words shall go humbly out of the ground. Thy voice shall come out of the earth, like the voice of a witch, and thy talking shall groan out of the mire.

A wise man will receive warning; but a fool will sooner be smitten in the face.

He that winketh with his eye, will do some harm; but he that hath a foolish mouth shall be beaten.

Then will I cast thee down unto them, that descend into the pit, unto a people that hath been long dead, and set thee in a land that is beneath, like the old wilderness, with them which go down to their graves, so that no man shall dwell more in thee. And I will make thee to be no more in honor, in the land of the living.

but while they be going here and there, I shall spread my net over them, and draw them down as the fowls of the air. And according as they have been warned, so will I punish them.

The LORD setteth up the meek, and bringeth the ungodly down to the ground.

But as for them, thou, O God, shalt bring them into the pit of destruction. The bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. Nevertheless, my trust shall be in thee, O LORD.

And why? God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

They thrust at me, that I might fall; but the LORD was my help.

Yet dare I say, that thou shalt be brought down to the deep of hell.

But the righteousness which cometh of faith, speaketh on this wise, "Say not in thine heart, 'who shall ascend into heaven?'" That is nothing else than to fetch Christ down.

And thou, Capernaum, which art lift up unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the miracles, which have been done in thee, had been showed in Sodom, they had remained to this day.

He putteth Down the mighty from their seats, and hath exalted them of low degree.