Bible Verses About Humility

because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

`And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me--the sinner!

I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

And there happened also a strife among them--who of them is accounted to be greater.

And he said to them, `The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors;

but ye are not so, but he who is greater among you--let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;

for who is greater? he who is reclining (at meat), or he who is ministering? is it not he who is reclining (at meat)? and I--I am in your midst as he who is ministering.

he who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing him, with joy doth rejoice because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy hath been fulfilled.

`Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;

if then I did wash your feet--the Lord and the Teacher--ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

`For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;

verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than he who sent him;

and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless--

that no flesh may glory before Him;

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God,

for I decided not to know any thing among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified;

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

Of such an one I will boast, and of myself I will not boast, except in my infirmities,

for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.

Concerning this thing thrice the Lord did I call upon, that it might depart from me,

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses--for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

I have become a fool--boasting; ye--ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles--even if I am nothing.

The signs, indeed, of the apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds,