Proverbs 29:23

The English Standar Version

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

Cross References

Job 22:29

For when they are humbled you say, 'It is because of pride';[2] but he saves the lowly.

Job 40:12

Look on everyone who is proud and bring him low and tread down the wicked where they stand.

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 comes 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 with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Proverbs 17:19

Whoever loves transgression loves strife; he who makes his door high seeks destruction.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction a man's heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor.

Proverbs 22:4

The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.[1]

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 66:2

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

Obadiah 1:3

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock,[2] in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?"

Matthew 18:4

Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 23:12

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

Matthew 5:3

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

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

Luke 18:14

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

Acts 12:23

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.

Deuteronomy 8:16

who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.

1 Peter 5:5

Likewise, you who 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."