27 Bible Verses about Humble Yourself

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,

if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.

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

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly.Never be wise in your own sight.

Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Say to the king and the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head."

And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

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

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

They have not humbled themselves even to this day, nor have they feared, nor walked in my law and my statutes that I set before you and before your fathers.

The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.

The angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress and submit to her."

Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD?

Seek the LORD, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the LORD.

then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor.

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached God's gospel to you free of charge?

"Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house."

Then he said to me, "Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.

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

And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

because your heart was penitent, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard how 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 also have heard you, declares the LORD.

submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

and said, "Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.