Luke 18:14

New American Bible - revised edition

I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” Saying on Children and the Kingdom.

Cross References

Job 22:29

For when they are brought low, you will say, “It is pride!” But downcast eyes he saves.

Job 25:4

How can anyone be in the right against God, or how can any born of woman be innocent?

Job 9:20

Though I were right, my own mouth might condemn me; were I innocent, it might put me in the wrong.

Psalm 138:6

The Lord is on high, but cares for the lowly and knows the proud from afar.

Psalm 143:2

Do not enter into judgment with your servant; before you no one can be just.

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods; for he rescued the people from the power of the Egyptians when they treated them arrogantly.”

Proverbs 15:33

The fear of the Lord is training for wisdom, and humility goes before honors.

Proverbs 18:12

Before disaster the heart is haughty, but before honor is humility.

Proverbs 25:7

For it is better to be told, “Come up closer!” than to be humbled before the prince.

Proverbs 29:23

Haughtiness brings humiliation, but the humble of spirit acquire honor.

Proverbs 3:34

Those who scoff, he scoffs at, but the lowly he favors.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a merry heart, because it is now that God favors your works.

Isaiah 45:25

In the Lord all the descendants of Israel shall have vindication and glory.”

Isaiah 53:11

Because of his anguish he shall see the light; because of his knowledge he shall be content; My servant, the just one, shall justify the many, their iniquity he shall bear.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and lofty One, the One who dwells forever, whose name is holy: I dwell in a high and holy place, but also with the contrite and lowly of spirit, To revive the spirit of the lowly, to revive the heart of the crushed.

Isaiah 66:2

My hand made all these things when all of them came to be—oracle of the Lord. This is the one whom I approve: the afflicted one, crushed in spirit, who trembles at my word.

Habakkuk 2:4

See, the rash have no integrity; but the just one who is righteous because of faith shall live.

Matthew 23:12

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Matthew 5:3

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 1:52

He has thrown down the rulers from their thrones but lifted up the lowly.

Luke 10:29

But because he wished to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 16:15

And he said to them, “You justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts; for what is of human esteem is an abomination in the sight of God. Sayings About the Law.

Romans 3:20

since no human being will be justified in his sight by observing the law; for through the law comes consciousness of sin. Justification Apart from the Law.

Romans 4:5

But when one does not work, yet believes in the one who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.

Romans 5:1

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Romans 8:33

Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us.

Galatians 2:16

[yet] who know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

James 4:10

Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.

James 4:6

But he bestows a greater grace; therefore, it says: “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

1 Samuel 1:18

She replied, “Let your servant find favor in your eyes,” and left. She went to her quarters, ate and drank with her husband, and no longer appeared downhearted.