35 Bible Verses about humbleness
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The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth.
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
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.
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly.Never be wise in your own sight.
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.
Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.
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.
Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.
Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
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.
But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the LORD,
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace.
The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
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.
Say to the king and the queen mother: "Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head."
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.
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.
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?
For the LORDtakes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.
"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."
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
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Humbleness » The humble
One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayedthus: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. read more.
I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.' But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!' I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Humbleness » The reward for humbling yourself
"But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies--if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land. read more.
But the land shall be abandoned by them and enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them, and they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they spurned my rules and their soul abhorred my statutes. Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God. But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD."
Then the LORD appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, 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.
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
Humbleness » What shall be humbled
Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation and to destroy its sinners from it. For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light. I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, and lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless.
The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the LORD alone will be exalted in that day. For the LORD of hosts has a day against all that is proud and lofty, against all that is lifted up--and it shall be brought low;
Humbleness » Humbling yourself before the lord
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
Humbleness » Jesus Christ humbling himself
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant,being born in the likeness of men. read more.
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Humbleness » Being of a humble spirit
It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.
