Bible Verses About Humility
Humility in scripture is not weakness or self-deprecation. It is an accurate understanding of one's place — before God and before others. Jesus modeled it in the most striking ways: washing his disciples' feet, eating with outcasts, entering Jerusalem on a donkey. These verses explore what that posture looks like lived out.
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant.
Among you — within the community of faith, the rules of power and status are explicitly reversed.
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Esteem others better than yourself. Not equal — better. That is not a modest suggestion.
And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
The mechanism is built into the structure of things. Self-exaltation leads down; humility leads up.
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
The lifting is not our work. We humble ourselves — and then we wait.
When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
Wisdom lives with the humble. Pride and wisdom cannot occupy the same house.
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