Proverbs 18:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 Before destruction one’s heart is haughty,
but humility goes before honor.(A)
Proverbs 15:33
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
33 The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom,
and humility goes before honor.(A)
1 Peter 5:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 In the same way, you who are younger must be subject to the elders.[a] And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for
“God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.”(A)
Footnotes
- 5.5 Or of those who are older
Proverbs 11:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
but wisdom is with the humble.(A)
Proverbs 16:18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 Pride goes before destruction
and a haughty spirit before a fall.(A)
Ezekiel 28:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 Mortal, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God:
Because your heart is proud
and you have said, “I am a god;
I sit in the seat of the gods,
in the heart of the seas,”
yet you are but a mortal and no god,
though you compare your mind
with the mind of a god.(A)
Proverbs 29:23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
23 A person’s pride will bring humiliation,
but one who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.(A)
Luke 14:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”(A)
Read full chapter
Ezekiel 28:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 Will you still say, “I am a god,”
in the presence of those who kill you,
though you are but a mortal and no god,
in the hands of those who pierce you?
Acts 12:21-23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
21 On an appointed day Herod put on his royal robes, took his seat on the platform, and delivered a public address to them. 22 The people kept shouting, “The voice of a god and not of a mortal!” 23 And immediately, because he had not given the glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.(A)
Read full chapter
Daniel 9:23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
23 At the beginning of your supplications a word went out, and I have come to declare it, for you are greatly beloved. So consider the word and understand the vision:(A)
Read full chapter
Daniel 9:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Seventy Weeks
20 While I was speaking and was praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God on behalf of the holy mountain of my God,(A)
Read full chapter
Daniel 5:23-24
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
23 You have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven! The vessels of his temple have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have been drinking wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose power is your very breath and to whom belong all your ways, you have not honored.(A)
24 “So from his presence the hand was sent and this writing was inscribed.(B)
Read full chapterNew Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.