23 occurrences

'Low' in the Bible

Every valley will be lifted up, and all the mountains and hills made low, and the twisted will be made straight, and the rough ways smooth;

Verse ConceptsFilling PlacesMountains RemovedTwisted WaysStraighteningSmoothnessPutting Things DownSmoothPaths

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.

Verse ConceptsHumilityPromotionIndividuals going homeHumbling Oneself

Being of low degree, his cause was not given a hearing: who has knowledge of his family? for his life is cut off from the earth.

Verse ConceptsForetelling Christ's DeathChrist And ShamingNo Justice

The God of this people Israel made selection of our fathers, lifting the people up from their low condition when they were living in the land of Egypt, and with a strong arm took them out of it.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, Examples Of God'sArm Of GodLeaving EgyptGod Multipling PeopleStrangers in israel

But the Jews, being moved with envy, took with them certain low persons from among the common people, and getting together a great number of people, made an outcry in the town, attacking the house of Jason with the purpose of taking them out to the people.

Verse ConceptsEnvyIntoleranceJealousyMarketsUnbelieversEnvy, Example OfUnbelief, Examples OfDisorder Among PeopleBringing People Out Of Other PlacesIsrael HardenedMaking Israel Jealous

And the low things of the world, and the things without honour, did God make selection of, yes, even the things which are not, so that he might make as nothing the things which are:

Verse ConceptsChosen InstrumentsHumilityArrogant ExistenceChosen DisciplesOther Unimportant PeopleimportanceJustification Excluding Boasting

Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?

Verse ConceptsFree Of ChargeHumbling OneselfWhat Sin?Humble Yourselfpreachingordermyself

But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;

Verse ConceptsPoverty, SpiritualHumility And PrideMoney Management

Bible Theasaurus

Abject (3 instances)
Cheap (6 instances)
Crouched (7 instances)
Debased (6 instances)
Ignoble (7 instances)
Inaudible (2 instances)
Lowly (47 instances)
Miserable (24 instances)
Modest (8 instances)
Scurvy (3 instances)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain