1 Peter 5:6 ESV / 1,855 helpful votes
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
Philippians 2:3-11 ESV / 1,476 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 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. ...
James 4:6 ESV / 1,417 helpful votes
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Matthew 23:12 ESV / 1,241 helpful votes
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 1,077 helpful votes
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.
2 Corinthians 11:30 ESV / 714 helpful votes
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
James 4:10 ESV / 713 helpful votes
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 693 helpful votes
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 609 helpful votes
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, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 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!’ ...
Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 571 helpful votes
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 545 helpful votes
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 514 helpful votes
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Micah 6:8 ESV / 508 helpful votes
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 435 helpful votes
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Proverbs 16:18 ESV / 434 helpful votes
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Luke 18:9-20 ESV / 287 helpful votes
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, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. 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!’ ...
Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 239 helpful votes
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Deuteronomy 8:2 ESV / 231 helpful votes
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.
Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 215 helpful votes
All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
Luke 14:11 ESV / 206 helpful votes
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Philippians 2:5-8 ESV / 205 helpful votes
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. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 199 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 183 helpful votes
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Philippians 2:3 ESV / 182 helpful votes
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Colossians 3:12 ESV / 181 helpful votes
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Matthew 11:29 ESV / 172 helpful votes
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.
Proverbs 3:34 ESV / 169 helpful votes
Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.
1 John 1:9 ESV / 163 helpful votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Romans 12:3 ESV / 163 helpful votes
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
James 5:16 ESV / 162 helpful votes
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 158 helpful votes
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
Proverbs 22:4 ESV / 157 helpful votes
The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
Proverbs 18:12 ESV / 156 helpful votes
Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.
Philippians 2:8 ESV / 145 helpful votes
And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
2 Chronicles 12:7 ESV / 145 helpful votes
When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah: “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath shall not be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 138 helpful votes
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
James 2:24 ESV / 136 helpful votes
You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
Isaiah 57:15 ESV / 135 helpful votes
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.
1 Peter 5:5-6 ESV / 130 helpful votes
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
Romans 12:1 ESV / 129 helpful votes
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 129 helpful votes
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Psalm 25:9 ESV / 128 helpful votes
He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
Proverbs 29:23 ESV / 127 helpful votes
One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
Proverbs 15:33 ESV / 125 helpful votes
The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
Matthew 18:2-3 ESV / 123 helpful votes
And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Psalm 149:4 ESV / 123 helpful votes
For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.
Romans 10:13 ESV / 112 helpful votes
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Proverbs 16:19 ESV / 112 helpful votes
It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.
Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 106 helpful votes
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...
James 3:13 ESV / 105 helpful votes
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
Numbers 12:3 ESV / 103 helpful votes
Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth.
Mark 10:45 ESV / 99 helpful votes
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
James 2:18 ESV / 96 helpful votes
But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
Matthew 3:8 ESV / 96 helpful votes
Bear fruit in keeping with repentance.
Ephesians 4:1-3 ESV / 93 helpful votes
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Romans 12:16 ESV / 92 helpful votes
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
Deuteronomy 8:2-3 ESV / 92 helpful votes
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. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.
Isaiah 59:1-2 ESV / 91 helpful votes
Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
John 3:16 ESV / 86 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Psalm 18:27 ESV / 86 helpful votes
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