James 4:6

God opposes the proud but gives even greater grace to the humble. Humility is the channel through which God's grace flows.

Cross-references · 33

• Matt 23:12For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
• Prov 3:34He mocks the mockers, but gives grace to the humble.
• 1 Pet 5:5Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Ps 138:6Though the LORD is on high, He attends to the lowly; but the proud He knows from afar.
• Prov 18:12Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
• Prov 29:23A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.
• Prov 6:16–17There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to Him:
• Prov 22:4The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
• Isa 2:11–12The proud look of man will be humbled, and the loftiness of men brought low; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.
• Job 22:29When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.
• Isa 2:17So the pride of man will be brought low, and the loftiness of men will be humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,
• 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.”
• 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.
• Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
• 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.
• Prov 15:33The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
• 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.
• 1 Sam 2:3Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
• 2 Chr 34:27because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
• 2 Chr 33:23but he did not humble himself before the LORD as his father Manasseh had done; instead, Amon increased his guilt.
• Matt 13:12Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
• Exod 10:3–4So 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.
• Exod 18:11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He did this when they treated Israel with arrogance.”
• Dan 5:20–23But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.
• Isa 16:6–7We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.
• Job 40:10–12Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, and clothe yourself with honor and glory.
• Isa 10:8–14“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.
• 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.
• Isa 54:7“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
• Exod 15:9–10The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
• Ps 9:12For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

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