Proverbs 29:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Job 22:29

When others are humiliated, you say it is pride, for he saves the humble.

Job 40:12

Look on all who are proud and bring them low; tread down the wicked where they stand.

Proverbs 11:2

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

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 16:19

It is better to be of a lowly spirit among the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Proverbs 17:19

One who loves transgression loves strife; one who builds a high threshold invites broken bones.

Proverbs 18:12

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

Proverbs 22:4

The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 66:2

All these things my hand has made, so all these things are mine, says the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look, to the humble and contrite in spirit who trembles at my word.

Obadiah 1:3

Your proud heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is in the heights. You say in your heart, “Who will bring me down to the ground?”

Matthew 18:4

Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 23:12

All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who humble themselves will be exalted.

Matthew 5:3

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

Luke 14:11

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

Luke 18:14

I tell you, this man went down to his home justified rather than the other, for all who exalt themselves will be humbled, but all who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Acts 12:23

And immediately, because he had not given the glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Deuteronomy 8:16

He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you and in the end to do you good.

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.”