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 23:12Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
• Prov 3:34Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.
• 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Ps 138:6For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.
• Prov 18:12Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.
• Prov 29:23A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
• Prov 6:16–17There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:
• Prov 22:4The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.
• Isa 2:11–12The 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.
• Job 22:29When they cast down, you shall say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.
• Isa 2:17The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
• 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.”
• 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.
• Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
• 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.
• Prov 15:33The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.
• 2 Chr 33:12When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
• 1 Sam 2:3“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. 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 inhabitants, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me, I also have heard you,” says Yahweh.
• 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.
• Matt 13:12For whoever has, to him will be given, and he will have abundance, but whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he has.
• Exod 10:3–4Moses 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.
• Exod 18:11Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them.”
• Dan 5:20–23But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him:
• Isa 16:6–7We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.
• Job 40:10–12“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.
• Isa 10:8–14For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?
• 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.
• Isa 54:7“For a small moment I have forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you.
• Exod 15:9–10The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’
• Ps 9:12For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

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