Proverbs 18:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Before destruction one’s heart is haughty, but humility goes before honor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, And before honour is humility.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Haughtiness comes before disaster, but humility before honor.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Before destruction the heart of man is haughty; And before honor goeth humility.

Common English Bible

¹² Pride comes before a disaster, but humility comes before respect.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² The heart of a man is exalted before it is crushed and humbled before it is glorified.

Proverbs 18:12 Cross References

Proverbs 15:33

The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility goes before honor.

1 Peter 5:5

In the same way, you who are younger must be subject to the elders. And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Proverbs 11:2

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but wisdom is with the humble.

Ezekiel 28:2

Mortal, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is proud and you have said, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,” yet you are but a mortal and no god, though you compare your mind with the mind of a god.

Proverbs 29:23

A person’s pride will bring humiliation, but one who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Luke 14:11

For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you still say, “I am a god,” in the presence of those who kill you, though you are but a mortal and no god, in the hands of those who pierce you?

Daniel 9:23

At the beginning of your supplications a word went out, and I have come to declare it, for you are greatly beloved. So consider the word and understand the vision:

Daniel 9:20

While I was speaking and was praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God on behalf of the holy mountain of my God,

Ezekiel 29:9

and the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste. Then they shall know that I am the Lord. Because you said, “The Nile is mine, and I made it,”

1 Kings 3:7

And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David, although I am only a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.