36 Bible Verses about humbleness
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As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;
With all gentle and quiet behaviour, taking whatever comes, putting up with one another in love;
If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.
Be in harmony with one another. Do not have a high opinion of yourselves, but be in agreement with common people. Do not give yourselves an air of wisdom.
And whoever makes himself high will be made low, and whoever makes himself low will be made high.
Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;
Before destruction the heart of man is full of pride, and before honour goes a gentle spirit.
And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.
Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.
Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.
But I will still have among you a quiet and poor people, and they will put their faith in the name of the Lord.
Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;
But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.
But the gentle will have the earth for their heritage; they will take their delight in peace without measure.
The fear of the Lord is the teaching of wisdom; and a low opinion of oneself goes before honour.
Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.
My soul will say great things of the Lord: the poor in spirit will have knowledge of it and be glad.
Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.
Then he said to me, Have no fear, Daniel; for from the first day when you gave your heart to getting wisdom and making yourself poor in spirit before your God, your words have come to his ears: and I have come because of your words.
Last of all, see that you are all in agreement; feeling for one another, loving one another like brothers, full of pity, without pride:
Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.
Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.
Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?
For the Lord has pleasure in his people: he gives the poor in spirit a crown of salvation.
Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.
For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;
For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.
From Thematic Bible
Humbleness » The humble
A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.
And whoever makes himself high will be made low, and whoever makes himself low will be made high.
For every man who gives himself a high place will be put down, but he who takes a low place will be lifted up.
And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others: Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer. The Pharisee, taking up his position, said to himself these words: God, I give you praise because I am not like other men, who take more than their right, who are evil-doers, who are untrue to their wives, or even like this tax-farmer. read more.
Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have. The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner. I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.
For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
Humbleness » The reward for humbling yourself
And they will have grief for their sins and for the sins of their fathers, when their hearts were untrue to me, and they went against me; So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins, Then I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will keep in mind the land. read more.
And the land, while she is without them, will keep her Sabbaths; and they will undergo the punishment of their sins, because they were turned away from my decisions and in their souls was hate for my laws. But for all that, when they are in the land of their haters I will not let them go, or be turned away from them, or give them up completely; my agreement with them will not be broken, for I am the Lord their God. And because of them I will keep in mind the agreement which I made with their fathers, whom I took out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, to be their God: I am the Lord.
Now the Lord came to Solomon in a vision by night, and said to him, I have given ear to your prayer, and have taken this place for myself as a house where offerings are to be made. If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people; If my people, on whom my name is named, make themselves low and come to me in prayer, searching for me and turning from their evil ways; then I will give ear from heaven, overlooking their sin, and will give life again to their land.
For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;
Humbleness » What shall be humbled
See, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel, with wrath and burning passion: to make the land a waste, driving the sinners in it to destruction. For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light. And I will send punishment on the world for its evil, and on the sinners for their wrongdoing; and I will put an end to all pride, and will make low the power of the cruel.
The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day. For the day of the Lord of armies is coming on all the pride of men, and on all who are high and lifted up;
Humbleness » Humbling yourself before the lord
For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;
Humbleness » Jesus Christ humbling himself
Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus, To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God; But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men; read more.
And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.
Humbleness » Being of a humble spirit
Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.
