Bible Verses About Meekness: General references

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

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

Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.

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

You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent,

when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah.

The LORD upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

For the LORD takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation <n>[yeshu`ah]</n>.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

Mockers stir up a city, but wise men turn away anger.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

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

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.

Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?