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Want to know what the Bible says about Humility? Here are 466 Bible verses about Humility from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Psalm 147:6 NIV
The Lord sustains the humble
    but casts the wicked to the ground.
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Matthew 5:3 NIV
“Blessed are the poor in spirit,
    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
1284
Job 22:29 NIV
When people are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’
    then he will save the downcast.
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Jeremiah 9:23 NIV
This is what the Lord says:
“Let not the wise boast of their wisdom
    or the strong boast of their strength
    or the rich boast of their riches,
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Matthew 23:10-12 NIV
10 Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. 11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
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Deuteronomy 8:2-3 NIV
2 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. 3 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.
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Proverbs 16:19 NIV
Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed
    than to share plunder with the proud.
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1 Peter 5:5-6 NIV
5 In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because,
“God opposes the proud
    but shows favor to the humble.”
6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.
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Proverbs 27:2 NIV
Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth;
    an outsider, and not your own lips.
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Psalm 138:6 NIV
Though the Lord is exalted, he looks kindly on the lowly;
    though lofty, he sees them from afar.
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