2 Chronicles 12:6
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6 Then the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is right in doing this to us!”
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Exodus 9:27
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27 Then Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he confessed. “The Lord is the righteous one, and my people and I are wrong.
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Daniel 9:14
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14 Therefore, the Lord has brought upon us the disaster he prepared. The Lord our God was right to do all of these things, for we did not obey him.
James 4:10
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10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor.
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James 4:6
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6 And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say,
“God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.”[a]
Romans 10:3
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3 For they don’t understand God’s way of making people right with himself. Refusing to accept God’s way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law.
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Luke 18:14
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14 I tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justified before God. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
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Hosea 5:15
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15 Then I will return to my place
until they admit their guilt and turn to me.
For as soon as trouble comes,
they will earnestly search for me.”
Daniel 5:22
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22 “You are his successor,[a] O Belshazzar, and you knew all this, yet you have not humbled yourself.
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- 5:22 Aramaic son.
Lamentations 1:18
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18 “The Lord is right,” Jerusalem says,
“for I rebelled against him.
Listen, people everywhere;
look upon my anguish and despair,
for my sons and daughters
have been taken captive to distant lands.
Jeremiah 44:10
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10 To this very hour you have shown no remorse or reverence. No one has chosen to follow my word and the decrees I gave to you and your ancestors before you.
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Jeremiah 13:18
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18 Say to the king and his mother,
“Come down from your thrones
and sit in the dust,
for your glorious crowns
will soon be snatched from your heads.”
Jeremiah 13:15
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A Warning against Pride
15 Listen and pay attention!
Do not be arrogant, for the Lord has spoken.
Psalm 129:4
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4 But the Lord is good;
he has cut me free from the ropes of the ungodly.
Psalm 78:34-35
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34 When God began killing them,
they finally sought him.
They repented and took God seriously.
35 Then they remembered that God was their rock,
that God Most High[a] was their redeemer.
Footnotes
- 78:35 Hebrew El-Elyon.
Job 33:27
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27 He will declare to his friends,
‘I sinned and twisted the truth,
but it was not worth it.[a]
Footnotes
- 33:27 Greek version reads but he [God] did not punish me as my sin deserved.
2 Chronicles 33:23
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23 But unlike his father, he did not humble himself before the Lord. Instead, Amon sinned even more.
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2 Chronicles 33:19
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19 Manasseh’s prayer, the account of the way God answered him, and an account of all his sins and unfaithfulness are recorded in The Record of the Seers.[a] It includes a list of the locations where he built pagan shrines and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself and repented.
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- 33:19 Or The Record of Hozai.
2 Chronicles 33:12
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12 But while in deep distress, Manasseh sought the Lord his God and sincerely humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.
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2 Chronicles 32:26
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26 Then Hezekiah humbled himself and repented of his pride, as did the people of Jerusalem. So the Lord’s anger did not fall on them during Hezekiah’s lifetime.
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1 Kings 8:37-39
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37 “If there is a famine in the land or a plague or crop disease or attacks of locusts or caterpillars, or if your people’s enemies are in the land besieging their towns—whatever disaster or disease there is— 38 and if your people Israel pray about their troubles, raising their hands toward this Temple, 39 then hear from heaven where you live, and forgive. Give your people what their actions deserve, for you alone know each human heart.