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 in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
• Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Prov 29:23A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
• Matt 23:12Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
• Luke 18:14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
• 2 Chr 32:26Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
• Luke 1:52He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.
• 2 Chr 12:12When he humbled himself, Yahweh’s wrath turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether. Moreover, there were good things found in Judah.
• 2 Chr 33:12When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
• Isa 40:4Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.
• Jer 44:10They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.’
• Ps 75:10I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
• 2 Kgs 22:19because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.
• Isa 2:11The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.
• 2 Chr 12:6–7Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.”
• Isa 57:15For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
• 1 Kgs 21:29“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”
• Jer 13:18Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses have come down, even the crown of your glory.
• Mic 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
• Ps 89:13You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
• Ps 89:16–17In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.
• Exod 10:3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
• 2 Chr 33:23He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.
• Dan 5:22You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,
• Rom 5:6For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
• 2 Chr 30:11Nevertheless some men of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
• Jas 1:9–10But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;
• 2 Chr 36:12He did that which was evil in Yahweh his God’s sight. He didn’t humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from Yahweh’s mouth.
• 2 Chr 33:19His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images, before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.
• Deut 32:35Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
• Ezek 17:21All his fugitives in all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward every wind: and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’
• Job 36:22Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?
• Exod 3:19I know that the king of Egypt won’t give you permission to go, no, not by a mighty hand.
• Lev 26:41I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity;
• Exod 32:11Moses begged Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
• Ezek 21:6“Sigh therefore, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart and with bitterness.
• 1 Cor 10:22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
• Jas 5:10Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
• Titus 1:3but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
• 1 Tim 2:6who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;

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