Bible Verses About Humility: Exemplified

Then King Dauid went in, and sate before the Lord, and sayde, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?

And this was yet a small thing in thy sight, O Lord God, therefore thou hast spoken also of thy seruants house for a great while: but doth this appertaine to man, O Lord God?

What is man, that thou doest magnifie him, and that thou settest thine heart vpon him?

And doest visite him euery morning, and tryest him euery moment?

Howe much lesse shall I answere him? or howe should I finde out my words with him?

For though I were iust, yet could I not answere, but I would make supplication to my Iudge.

Or hast thou an arme like God? or doest thou thunder with a voyce like him?

Decke thy selfe now with maiestie and excellencie, and aray thy selfe with beautie and glory.

Heare, I beseech thee, and I will speake: I will demaunde of thee, and declare thou vnto me.

I haue heard of thee by the hearing of the eare, but now mine eye seeth thee.

Therefore I abhorre my selfe, and repent in dust and ashes.

When I beholde thine heauens, euen the workes of thy fingers, the moone and the starres which thou hast ordeined,

What is man, say I, that thou art mindefull of him? and the sonne of man, that thou visitest him?

A song of degrees or Psalme of David. Lord, mine heart is not hautie, neither are mine eyes loftie, neither haue I walked in great matters and hid from me.

Surely I haue behaued my selfe, like one wained from his mother, and kept silence: I am in my selfe as one that is wained.

Lord, what is man that thou regardest him! or the sonne of man that thou thinkest vpon him!

Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.

Surely I am more foolish then any man, and haue not the vnderstanding of a man in me.

For I haue not learned wisedome, nor atteined to the knowledge of holy things.

O Lord, I knowe, that the way of man is not in himselfe, neyther is it in man to walke and to direct his steps.

O Lord, correct mee, but with iudgement, not in thine anger, least thou bring mee to nothing.

Then shall the righteous answere him, saying, Lord, when sawe we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or a thirst, and gaue thee drinke?

And when sawe we thee a stranger, and tooke thee in vnto vs? or naked, and clothed thee?

Or when sawe we thee sicke, or in prison, and came vnto thee?

And the King shall answere, and say vnto them, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye haue done it vnto one of the least of these my brethre, ye haue done it to me.