James 4:6
New Living Translation
6 And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say,
“God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.”[a]
Matthew 23:12
New Living Translation
12 But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
Read full chapter
Proverbs 3:34
New Living Translation
34 The Lord mocks the mockers
but is gracious to the humble.[a]
1 Peter 5:5
New Living Translation
5 In the same way, you who are younger must accept the authority of the elders. And all of you, dress yourselves in humility as you relate to one another, for
“God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.”[a]
Proverbs 18:12
New Living Translation
12 Haughtiness goes before destruction;
humility precedes honor.
Psalm 138:6
New Living Translation
6 Though the Lord is great, he cares for the humble,
but he keeps his distance from the proud.
Proverbs 6:16-17
New Living Translation
16 There are six things the Lord hates—
no, seven things he detests:
17 haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that kill the innocent,
Proverbs 29:23
New Living Translation
23 Pride ends in humiliation,
while humility brings honor.
Proverbs 22:4
New Living Translation
4 True humility and fear of the Lord
lead to riches, honor, and long life.
Isaiah 2:11-12
New Living Translation
11 Human pride will be brought down,
and human arrogance will be humbled.
Only the Lord will be exalted
on that day of judgment.
12 For the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
has a day of reckoning.
He will punish the proud and mighty
and bring down everything that is exalted.
Daniel 4:37
New Living Translation
37 “Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and glorify and honor the King of heaven. All his acts are just and true, and he is able to humble the proud.”
Job 22:29
New Living Translation
29 If people are in trouble and you say, ‘Help them,’
God will save them.
Luke 14:11
New Living Translation
11 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
Read full chapter
Isaiah 2:17
New Living Translation
17 Human pride will be humbled,
and human arrogance will be brought down.
Only the Lord will be exalted
on that day of judgment.
Isaiah 57:15
New Living Translation
15 The high and lofty one who lives in eternity,
the Holy One, says this:
“I live in the high and holy place
with those whose spirits are contrite and humble.
I restore the crushed spirit of the humble
and revive the courage of those with repentant hearts.
Luke 18:14
New Living Translation
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.”
Read full chapter
Proverbs 15:33
New Living Translation
33 Fear of the Lord teaches wisdom;
humility precedes honor.
2 Chronicles 33:12
New Living Translation
12 But while in deep distress, Manasseh sought the Lord his God and sincerely humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.
Read full chapter
2 Chronicles 32:26
New Living Translation
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.
Read full chapter
1 Samuel 2:3
New Living Translation
3 “Stop acting so proud and haughty!
Don’t speak with such arrogance!
For the Lord is a God who knows what you have done;
he will judge your actions.
Luke 1:52
New Living Translation
52 He has brought down princes from their thrones
and exalted the humble.
2 Chronicles 34:27
New Living Translation
27 You were sorry and humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this city and its people. You humbled yourself and tore your clothing in despair and wept before me in repentance. And I have indeed heard you, says the Lord.
Read full chapter
2 Chronicles 33:23
New Living Translation
23 But unlike his father, he did not humble himself before the Lord. Instead, Amon sinned even more.
Read full chapter
Matthew 13:12
New Living Translation
12 To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be given, and they will have an abundance of knowledge. But for those who are not listening, even what little understanding they have will be taken away from them.
Read full chapter
Daniel 5:20-23
New Living Translation
20 But when his heart and mind were puffed up with arrogance, he was brought down from his royal throne and stripped of his glory. 21 He was driven from human society. He was given the mind of a wild animal, and he lived among the wild donkeys. He ate grass like a cow, and he was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he learned that the Most High God rules over the kingdoms of the world and appoints anyone he desires to rule over them.
22 “You are his successor,[a] O Belshazzar, and you knew all this, yet you have not humbled yourself. 23 For you have proudly defied the Lord of heaven and have had these cups from his Temple brought before you. You and your nobles and your wives and concubines have been drinking wine from them while praising gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone—gods that neither see nor hear nor know anything at all. But you have not honored the God who gives you the breath of life and controls your destiny!
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 5:22 Aramaic son.
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Bible Gateway Recommends
