14 Bible Verses About God Exalts the Humble
14 Bible verses about God Exalts the Humble to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
Humble yourselves, then, under God’s powerful hand, so that he may raise you up when the time is right.
Make yourselves low before the Lord, and he will raise you high.
For everyone who lifts themselves up will be brought low, and the one who takes the low place will be lifted up.”
Those who lift themselves up will be brought low, and those who make themselves low will be lifted up.
Pride brings a person down, but the humble in spirit gain honor.
So the greatest in the kingdom of heaven is anyone who takes a low place, as this child does.
The LORD is high, yet he looks upon those who are low; the proud he knows from a distance.
A proud heart goes before a fall, and humility comes before honor.
For the One high and lifted up, who dwells in eternity, whose name is Holy, says this: My home is the high and holy place, yet I am also with the one who is crushed and low in spirit, to bring the spirit of the lowly back to life and put new life into the hearts of the crushed.
He has pulled the mighty down from their thrones and raised up the lowly.
Humility and the fear of the LORD bring their reward: riches, honor, and life.
The LORD lifts up the lowly and throws the wicked down to the earth.
But the grace he gives is greater. That is why it says, “God sets himself against the proud, but to the humble he gives grace.”
I tell you, it was this man, not the other, who went home put right with God. For everyone who lifts themselves up will be brought low, and the one who takes the low place will be lifted up.”