Proverbs 29:23

Pride humbles a person, but a humble spirit is the path to true honor.

Cross-references · 24

• Matt 23:12Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
• Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Prov 11:2When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.
• Isa 66:2For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but to this man will I look, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
• Jas 4:6–10But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but 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.”
• Prov 15:33The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.
• Prov 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
• 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 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.
• Prov 18:12Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.
• Matt 18:4Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
• 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.
• Deut 8:16who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know; that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end:
• Deut 8:2–3You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
• Job 40:12Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
• Matt 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Dan 5:20–21But 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:
• 2 Chr 32:25–26But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.
• Job 22:29When they cast down, you shall say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.
• Dan 4:30–37The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
• Acts 12:23Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• 2 Chr 33:23–24He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.
• 2 Chr 33:10–12Yahweh spoke to Manasseh, and to his people; but they didn’t listen.

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