Proverbs 18:12 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹² Before destruction a man'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

1 Kings 3:7

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

Proverbs 11:2

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

Proverbs 15:33

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

Proverbs 16:18

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

Proverbs 29:23

A man's pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, 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 man, and no god, though you consider yourself as wise as a god—

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who wound you?

Ezekiel 29:9

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

Daniel 9:20

While I was speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy hill of my God;

Daniel 9:23

At the beginning of your supplications a word went forth, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly beloved; therefore consider the word and understand the vision.

Luke 14:11

For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise you that are younger be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”