17 Bible Verses about Abasing People

You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.

For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.

A man's pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

for it is better that it be said to you, "Come up here," than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.

You will be brought down, and will speak out of the ground. Your speech will mumble out of the dust. Your voice will be as of one who has a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and your speech will whisper out of the dust.

The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

One winking with the eye causes sorrow, but a chattering fool will fall.

then will I bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living:

When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

You pushed me back hard, to make me fall, but Yahweh helped me.

Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down);

You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until this day.

He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.