23 Bible Verses about Humility, Examples Of

Abraham answered and said, "Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

I am not worthy of the least of all the deeds of steadfast love and all the faithfulness that you have shown to your servant, for with only my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?"

But Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue."

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.

And he said to him, "Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house."

"But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

But Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the LORD.

"Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."

And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"

Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth."

John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"

But the centurion replied, "Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed.

She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."

And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord."

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews;

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.

If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.

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.