HUMILITY

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• Genesis 18:27

  Abraham answered, “See now, I have taken it on myself to speak to the Lord, although I am dust and ashes.

• Genesis 18:32

  He said, “Oh don’t let the Lord be angry, and I will speak just once more. What if ten are found there?” He said, “I will not destroy it for the ten’s sake.”

• Genesis 32:10

  I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

• Genesis 41:16

  Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”

• Exodus 3:11

  Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

• Exodus 4:10

  Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

• Deuteronomy 9:4

  Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land”; because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.

• Deuteronomy 9:5

  Not for your righteousness, or for the uprightness of your heart, do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

• Deuteronomy 9:6

  Know therefore, that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.

• Deuteronomy 9:7

  Remember, and don’t forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you left the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.

• Deuteronomy 9:8

  Also in Horeb you provoked Yahweh to wrath, and Yahweh was angry with you to destroy you.

• Deuteronomy 9:9

  When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

• Deuteronomy 9:10

  Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.

• Deuteronomy 9:11

  It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.

• Deuteronomy 9:12

  Yahweh said to me, “Arise, get down quickly from here; for your people whom you have brought out of Egypt have corrupted themselves. They have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them. They have made a molten image for themselves!”

• Deuteronomy 9:13

  Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

• Deuteronomy 9:14

  Leave me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under the sky; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.”

• Deuteronomy 9:15

  So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire. The two tablets of the covenant were in my two hands.

• Deuteronomy 9:16

  I looked, and behold, you had sinned against Yahweh your God. You had made yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly out of the way which Yahweh had commanded you.

• Deuteronomy 9:17

  I took hold of the two tablets, and threw them out of my two hands, and broke them before your eyes.

• Deuteronomy 9:18

  I fell down before Yahweh, as at the first, forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you sinned, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.

• Deuteronomy 9:19

  For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which Yahweh was angry against you to destroy you. But Yahweh listened to me that time also.

• Deuteronomy 9:20

  Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

• Deuteronomy 9:21

  I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire, and crushed it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust. I threw its dust into the brook that descended out of the mountain.

• Deuteronomy 9:22

  At Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth Hattaavah, you provoked Yahweh to wrath.

• Deuteronomy 9:23

  When Yahweh sent you from Kadesh Barnea, saying, “Go up and possess the land which I have given you,” you rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God, and you didn’t believe him, nor listen to his voice.

• Deuteronomy 9:24

  You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.

• Deuteronomy 9:25

  So I fell down before Yahweh the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Yahweh had said he would destroy you.

• Deuteronomy 9:26

  I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance, that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

• Deuteronomy 9:27

  Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don’t look at the stubbornness of this people, nor at their wickedness, nor at their sin,

• Deuteronomy 9:28

  lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’

• Deuteronomy 9:29

  Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”

• Deuteronomy 15:15

  You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.

• Deuteronomy 32:7

  Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

• 1 Samuel 18:18

  David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”

• 1 Samuel 18:19

  But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.

• 1 Samuel 18:20

  Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

• 1 Samuel 18:21

  Saul said, I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Therefore Saul said to David, “You shall today be my son-in-law a second time.”

• 1 Samuel 18:22

  Saul commanded his servants, “Talk with David secretly, and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.’”

• 1 Samuel 18:23

  Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. David said, “Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?”

• 1 Samuel 24:14

  Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A flea?

• 1 Samuel 26:20

  Now therefore, don’t let my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of Yahweh; for the king of Israel has come out to seek a flea, as when one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

• 2 Samuel 7:18

  Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

• 2 Samuel 7:19

  This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come; and this among men, Lord Yahweh!

• 2 Samuel 7:20

  What more can David say to you? For you know your servant, Lord Yahweh.

• 2 Samuel 7:21

  For your word’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.

• 2 Samuel 7:22

  Therefore you are great, Yahweh God. For there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

• 2 Samuel 7:23

  What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

• 2 Samuel 7:24

  You established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

• 2 Samuel 7:25

  Now, Yahweh God, the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, confirm it forever, and do as you have spoken.

• 2 Samuel 7:26

  Let your name be magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is God over Israel; and the house of your servant David will be established before you.’

• 2 Samuel 7:27

  For you, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, have revealed to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found in his heart to pray this prayer to you.

• 2 Samuel 7:28

  “Now, O Lord Yahweh, you are God, and your words are truth, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

• 2 Samuel 7:29

  Now therefore let it please you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Lord Yahweh, have spoken it. Let the house of your servant be blessed forever with your blessing.”

• 2 Samuel 9:8

  He bowed down, and said, “What is your servant, that you should look at such a dead dog as I am?”

• 1 Kings 3:7

  Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.

• 1 Kings 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.”

• 1 Chronicles 17:16

  Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

• 1 Chronicles 17:17

  This was a small thing in your eyes, God; but you have spoken of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have respected me according to the standard of a man of high degree, Yahweh God.

• 1 Chronicles 17:18

  What can David say yet more to you concerning the honor which is done to your servant? For you know your servant.

• 1 Chronicles 17:19

  Yahweh, for your servant’s sake, and according to your own heart, you have done all this greatness, to make known all these great things.

• 1 Chronicles 17:20

  Yahweh, there is no one like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

• 1 Chronicles 17:21

  What one nation in the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in driving out nations from before your people, whom you redeem out of Egypt?

• 1 Chronicles 17:22

  For you made your people Israel your own people forever; and you, Yahweh, became their God.

• 1 Chronicles 17:23

  Now, Yahweh, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant, and concerning his house, be established forever, and do as you have spoken.

• 1 Chronicles 17:24

  Let your name be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel. The house of David your servant is established before you.’

• 1 Chronicles 17:25

  For you, my God, have revealed to your servant that you will build him a house. Therefore your servant has found courage to pray before you.

• 1 Chronicles 17:26

  Now, Yahweh, you are God, and have promised this good thing to your servant.

• 1 Chronicles 17:27

  Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”

• 1 Chronicles 29:14

  But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

• 2 Chronicles 1:10

  Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”

• 2 Chronicles 2:6

  But who is able to build him a house, since heaven and the heaven of heavens can’t contain him? Who am I then, that I should build him a house, except just to burn incense before him?

• 2 Chronicles 34:27

  because 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.

• Ezra 9:13

  “After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

• Job 5:11

  so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

• Job 7:17

  What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

• Job 7:18

  that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?

• Job 9:14

  How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?

• Job 9:15

  Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.

• Job 10:15

  If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.

• Job 22:29

  When they cast down, you shall say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

• Job 25:5

  Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

• Job 25:6

  How much less man, who is a worm, the son of man, who is a worm!”

• Job 32:4

  Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.

• Job 32:5

  When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.

• Job 32:6

  Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, “I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.

• Job 32:7

  I said, ‘Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’

• Job 33:6

  Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.

• Job 40:4

  “Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

• Job 40:5

  I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

• Job 42:4

  You said, ‘Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.’

• Job 42:5

  I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

• Job 42:6

  Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

• Psalms 8:3

  When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

• Psalms 8:4

  what is man, that you think of him? What is the son of man, that you care for him?

• Psalms 9:12

  For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

• Psalms 10:17

  Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,

• Psalms 22:6

  But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

• Psalms 22:26

  The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

• Psalms 25:9

  He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

• Psalms 37:11

  But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

• Psalms 69:32

  The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

• Psalms 73:22

  I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

• Psalms 86:1

  A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

• Psalms 131:1

  A Song of Ascents. By David. Yahweh, my heart isn’t haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

• Psalms 131:2

  Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

• Psalms 138:6

  For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.

• Psalms 141:5

  Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

• Psalms 144:3

  Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

• Psalms 144:4

  Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

• Psalms 147:6

  Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

• Proverbs 3:34

  Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

• Proverbs 10:8

  The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

• Proverbs 11:2

  When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

• Proverbs 12:15

  The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

• Proverbs 15:33

  The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

• Proverbs 16:19

  It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

• Proverbs 18:12

  Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

• Proverbs 22:4

  The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

• Proverbs 25:6

  Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men;

• Proverbs 25:7

  for it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,” than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.

• Proverbs 27:2

  Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

• Proverbs 29:23

  A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

• Proverbs 30:2

  “Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.

• Proverbs 30:3

  I have not learned wisdom, neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.

• Proverbs 30:32

  “If you have done foolishly in lifting up yourself, or if you have thought evil, put your hand over your mouth.

• Ecclesiastes 5:2

  Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

• Isaiah 6:5

  Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”

• Isaiah 29:19

  The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 38:15

  What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

• Isaiah 51:1

  “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

• Isaiah 57:15

  For 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.

• Isaiah 66:2

  For 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.

• Jeremiah 1:6

  Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”

• Jeremiah 10:23

  Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

• Jeremiah 10:24

  Yahweh, correct me, but in measure: not in your anger, lest you bring me to nothing.

• Jeremiah 45:5

  Do you seek great things for yourself? Don’t seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh,’ says Yahweh; ‘but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.’”

• Ezekiel 16:63

  that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”

• Daniel 2:30

  But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.

• Micah 6:8

  He 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?

• Zephaniah 3:11

  In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.

• Zephaniah 3:12

  But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

• Matthew 3:14

  But John would have hindered him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?”

• Matthew 5:3

  “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

• Matthew 8:8

  The centurion answered, “Lord, I’m not worthy for you to come under my roof. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

• Matthew 11:29

  Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

• Matthew 15:27

  But she said, “Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.”

• Matthew 18:2

  Jesus called a little child to himself, and set him in the middle of them,

• Matthew 18:3

  and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

• Matthew 18:4

  Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

• Matthew 20:26

  It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.

• Matthew 20:27

  Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,

• Matthew 23:12

  Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

• Matthew 25:37

  “Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?

• Matthew 25:38

  When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?

• Matthew 25:39

  When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?’

• Matthew 25:40

  “The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

• Mark 1:7

  He preached, saying, “After me comes he who is mightier than I, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and loosen.

• Mark 9:33

  He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”

• Mark 9:34

  But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest.

• Mark 9:35

  He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”

• Mark 9:36

  He took a little child, and set him in the middle of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,

• Mark 9:37

  “Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”

• Mark 10:43

  But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

• Mark 10:44

  Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.

• Luke 1:43

  Why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

• Luke 1:52

  He has put down princes from their thrones. And has exalted the lowly.

• Luke 3:16

  John answered them all, “I indeed baptize you with water, but he comes who is mightier than I, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to loosen. He will baptize you in the Holy Spirit and fire,

• Luke 5:8

  But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”

• Luke 7:6

  Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, “Lord, don’t trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.

• Luke 7:7

  Therefore I didn’t even think myself worthy to come to you; but say the word, and my servant will be healed.

• Luke 9:46

  There arose an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.

• Luke 9:47

  Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,

• Luke 9:48

  and said to them, “Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. For whoever is least among you all, this one will be great.”

• Luke 10:21

  In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

• Luke 14:10

  But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.

• Luke 14:11

  For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

• Luke 17:10

  Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’”

• Luke 18:13

  But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

• Luke 18:14

  I 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.”

• Luke 22:24

  There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.

• Luke 22:25

  He said to them, “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’

• Luke 22:26

  But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.

• Luke 22:27

  For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

• John 1:27

  He is the one who comes after me, who is preferred before me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to loosen.”

• John 3:29

  He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

• John 3:30

  He must increase, but I must decrease.

• John 13:14

  If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

• John 13:15

  For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.

• John 13:16

  Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

• Acts 3:12

  When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?

• Acts 10:33

  Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

• Romans 1:12

  that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

• Romans 7:18

  For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

• Romans 11:18

  don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

• Romans 11:20

  True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

• Romans 11:25

  For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

• Romans 12:3

  For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

• Romans 12:10

  In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

• Romans 12:16

  Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

• Romans 16:7

  Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who were also in Christ before me.

• 1 Corinthians 1:28

  and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

• 1 Corinthians 1:29

  that no flesh should boast before God.

• 1 Corinthians 2:1

  When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.

• 1 Corinthians 2:2

  For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

• 1 Corinthians 2:3

  I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

• 1 Corinthians 3:18

  Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

• 1 Corinthians 10:12

  Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

• 1 Corinthians 13:4

  Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

• 1 Corinthians 15:9

  For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

• 1 Corinthians 15:10

  But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

• 2 Corinthians 3:5

  not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

• 2 Corinthians 11:30

  If I must boast, I will boast of the things that concern my weakness.

• 2 Corinthians 12:5

  On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

• 2 Corinthians 12:6

  For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me, or hears from me.

• 2 Corinthians 12:7

  By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

• 2 Corinthians 12:8

  Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

• 2 Corinthians 12:9

  He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

• 2 Corinthians 12:10

  Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

• 2 Corinthians 12:11

  I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for in nothing was I inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

• 2 Corinthians 12:12

  Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

• Galatians 5:26

  Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

• Galatians 6:14

  But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

• Ephesians 3:8

  To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

• Ephesians 4:2

  with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

• Ephesians 5:21

  subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

• Philippians 2:3

  doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

• Philippians 2:4

  each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

• Philippians 2:5

  Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

• Philippians 2:6

  who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

• Philippians 2:7

  but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

• Philippians 2:8

  And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

• Philippians 2:9

  Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;

• Philippians 2:10

  that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,

• Philippians 2:11

  and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

• Philippians 3:12

  Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

• Philippians 3:13

  Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

• Philippians 4:12

  I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

• Colossians 3:12

  Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

• 1 Timothy 1:15

  The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

• James 1:9

  But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

• James 1:10

  and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

• James 1:19

  So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

• James 3:1

  Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

• James 4:6

  But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

• James 4:10

  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

• 1 Peter 5:1

  Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

• 1 Peter 5:3

  neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

• 1 Peter 5:5

  Likewise, 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.”

• 1 Peter 5:6

  Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

• Revelation 1:9

  I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

• Revelation 4:10

  the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne, and worship him who lives forever and ever, and throw their crowns before the throne, saying,