²⁶ this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Take off the turban, remove the crown.^(A) It will not be as it was: The lowly will be exalted and the exalted will be brought low.^(B)

⁴ Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.^(A)

¹² For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.^(A)

¹⁴ “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”^(A)

¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.^(A)

⁵ In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves^(A) to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility^(B) toward one another, because,

⁶ Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.^(D)