40+ Humility Bible Verses Everyone Needs to Hear

Published February 15, 2023

Being humble is an essential part of living a Christ-centered life. However, you can’t deny that keeping yourself grounded and putting others above yourself isn’t always easy.

As human beings, we are predisposed to thinking that we are above everyone else. After all, our species made it this far because we believed that we are at the top of the food chain.

But as we all know, pride is one of the seven capital sins. It not only destroys your relationship with others but also prevents you from appreciating God’s grace.

If we want to live like true Christians, we need to practice humility and remember that our focus should be on God rather than ourselves.

Fortunately, the scripture offers us several key cornerstone verses that can help us stay grounded and remind us to stay focused on the Lord. And we’ve put together those verses in this post. 

If you are looking for a biblical way to check your pride, here are some of the most powerful humility Bible verses you need to hear. 

Bible Verses About Pride and Humility

1. He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble. – Luke 1:52
2. But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble. – James 4:6
3. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted. – Luke 14:11
4. Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. – James 4:14-16
5. Though the Lord is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly; though lofty, he sees them from afar. – Psalm 138:6
6. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things – and the things that are not – to nullify the things that are so that no one may boast before him. – 1 Corinthians 1:28-29
7. But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace. – Psalm 37:11
8. Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. – Deuteronomy 8:2-3
9. Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things, I delight, declares the Lord. – Jeremiah 9:23-24
10. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. – Matthew 5:3
11. The Lord lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground. – Psalm 147:6
12. 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. – Isaiah 66:2

Bible Verses About Humbling Yourself

1. Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. – Colossians 3:12
2. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up – James 4:10
3. If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land – 2 Chronicles 7:14
4. He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. – Micah 6:8
5. For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. – Romans 12:3
6. Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. – 1 Peter 5:6
7. So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. – Matthew 6:2
8. Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. – Psalm 95:6
9. Very truly, I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. – John 13:16
10. Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the Lord. – Zephaniah 2:3