(Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
I have made a fool of myself, but you drove me to it. I ought to have been commended by you, for I am not in the least inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.
I do not think I am in the least inferior to those “super-apostles.”
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.
Instead, we were like young children among you. Just as a nursing mother cares for her children,
By the humility and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am “timid” when face to face with you, but “bold” toward you when away!
“Say to Daughter Zion, ‘See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’ ”
For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with victory.
The Lord sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground.
At once the Lord said to Moses, Aaron and Miriam, “Come out to the tent of meeting, all three of you.” So the three of them went out.