50 Bible Verses About Humility
The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.
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.”
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.
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?
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
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.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
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.
Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.
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.
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. ...
One's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.
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.
For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.
He must increase, but I must decrease.”
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.
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.
Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the Lord.
The Lord lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground.
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
For when they are humbled you say, ‘It is because of pride’; but he saves the lowly.
Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ. The greatest among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
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.
It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.
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,
Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.
For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he knows from afar.
“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son's days I will bring the disaster upon his house.”
Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.
And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
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.
Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.
Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth.
He has brought down the mighty from their thrones and exalted those of humble estate;
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
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