Humility Scriptures
Humility Scriptures
1 Col 3:12 12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved,
clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
2 Eph 4:2 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.
3 James 4:6 6But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”
4 James 4:10 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
5 1 Peter 5:5 5 In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders.
All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because,
“God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”
6 2 Chron 7:14 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves
and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,
then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
7 Luke 14:11 11 For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled,
and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
18 Rom 12:3 3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you:
Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought,
but rather think of yourself with sober judgment,
in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.
22 Matt 23:10-12 10 Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah.
11 The greatest among you will be your servant.
12 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled,
and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
23 James 4:14-16 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.
What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
24 Phi 2:5-8 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
28 Matt 11:29-30 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
30 Mark 9:35 35 Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said,
“Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.”
32 1 Cor 1:28-29 28God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—
and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are,
29 so that no one may boast before him.
33 Matt 6:2 2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets,
as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored
by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
34 Col 3:18-19 18 Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them.
35 Luke 9:48 48 Then he said to them, “Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me;
and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me.
For it is the one who is least among you all who is the greatest.”
39 Daniel 4:37 37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven,
because everything he does is right and all his ways are just.
And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
40 John 13:14 14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet,
you also should wash one another’s feet.
42 James 1:9-10 9 Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position.
10 But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—
since they will pass away like a wild flower.