1 Peter 5:6

Believers should humble themselves under God's mighty hand, trusting He will exalt them at the proper time. It calls for patient submission to God amid trials.

Cross-references · 40

• Jas 4:10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
• Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Prov 29:23A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.
• Matt 23:12For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
• Luke 18:14I tell you, this man, rather than the Pharisee, went home justified. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
• 2 Chr 32:26Then Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.
• Luke 1:52He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.
• 2 Chr 12:12Because Rehoboam humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned away from him, and He did not destroy him completely. Indeed, conditions were good in Judah.
• 2 Chr 33:12And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
• Isa 40:4Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain.
• Jer 44:10To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.
• Ps 75:10“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”
• 2 Kgs 22:19because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
• Isa 2:11The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
• 2 Chr 12:6–7So the leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The LORD is righteous.”
• Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
• 1 Kgs 21:29“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before Me? Because he has humbled himself before Me, I will not bring the calamity during his days, but I will bring it upon his house in the days of his son.”
• Jer 13:18Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”
• Mic 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
• Ps 89:13Mighty is Your arm; strong is Your hand. Your right hand is exalted.
• Ps 89:16–17They rejoice in Your name all day long, and in Your righteousness they exult.
• Exod 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
• 2 Chr 33:23but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
• Dan 5:22But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.
• Rom 5:6For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
• 2 Chr 30:11Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
• Jas 1:9–10The brother in humble circumstances should exult in his high position.
• 2 Chr 36:12And he did evil in the sight of the LORD his God and did not humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke for the LORD.
• 2 Chr 33:19His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.
• Deut 32:35Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
• Ezek 17:21All his choice troops will fall by the sword, and those who survive will be scattered to every wind. Then you will know that I, the LORD, have spoken.’
• Job 36:22Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?
• Exod 3:19But I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go unless a mighty hand compels him.
• Lev 26:41and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,
• Exod 32:11But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God, saying, “O LORD, why does Your anger burn against Your people, whom You brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?
• Ezek 21:6But you, son of man, groan! Groan before their eyes with a broken heart and bitter grief.
• 1 Cor 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
• Jas 5:10Brothers, as an example of patience in affliction, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
• Titus 1:3In His own time He has made His word evident in the proclamation entrusted to me by the command of God our Savior.
• 1 Tim 2:6who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.

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