Matthew 23:12

Matthew 23:12
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

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Genesis 11:4
They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

Exodus 10:3
Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

Leviticus 26:41
I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,

1 Kings 21:29
“See how Ahab humbles himself before me? Because he humbles himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days; but I will bring the evil on his house in his son’s day.”

2 Chronicles 12:6
Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “Yahweh is righteous.”

2 Chronicles 12:7
When Yahweh saw that they humbled themselves, Yahweh’s word came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves. I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance, and my wrath won’t be poured out on Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.

2 Chronicles 12:12
When he humbled himself, Yahweh’s wrath turned from him, so as not to destroy him altogether. Moreover, there were good things found in Judah.

Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.

Daniel 5:21
He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

Daniel 5:22
“You, his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this,

Daniel 5:23
but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

Matthew 11:23
You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.

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Deuteronomy 8:2
You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.

Deuteronomy 8:16
who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers didn’t know, that he might humble you, and that he might prove you, to do you good at your latter end;

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1 Samuel 2:9
He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked will be put to silence in darkness; for no man will prevail by strength.

Psalms 27:6
Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.

Psalms 28:9
Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

Psalms 30:1
I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.

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2 Chronicles 20:1
After this, the children of Moab, the children of Ammon, and with them some of the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

Psalms 83:5
For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

Psalms 83:6
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

Psalms 83:7
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Psalms 83:8
Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

Matthew 22:15
Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

Matthew 22:16
They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach; for you aren’t partial to anyone.

Acts 4:27
“For truly, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed,

Acts 6:9
But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.

Acts 17:18
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

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2 Chronicles 32:26
However, Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

2 Chronicles 33:12
When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 33:13
He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.

2 Chronicles 33:19
His prayer also, and how God listened to his request, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places and set up the Asherah poles and the engraved images before he humbled himself: behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

2 Chronicles 33:23
He didn’t humble himself before Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

Job 40:10
“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.

Job 40:11
Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

Job 40:12
Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

Ezekiel 6:9
Those of you that escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols. Then they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

Ezekiel 20:43
There you will remember your ways, and all your deeds in which you have polluted yourselves. Then you will loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that you have committed.

James 4:7
Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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Matthew 5:16
Even so, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 6:1
“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 6:2
Therefore, when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:5
“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:16
“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:19
“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

Matthew 6:22
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Luke 17:10
Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’ ”

Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

2 Corinthians 11:7
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?

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Matthew 23:39
For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”

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Matthew 26:5
But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”

Matthew 26:47
While he was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

Luke 13:1
Now there were some present at the same time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

Acts 4:1
As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

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Job 5:11
so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

Psalms 113:7
He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the needy from the ash heap,

Ezekiel 21:26
the Lord Yahweh says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.

Luke 6:20
He lifted up his eyes to his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for God’s Kingdom is yours.

Romans 6:4
We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

James 1:10
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

James 5:12
But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear— not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.

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Matthew 18:5
Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

Matthew 25:40
“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Luke 14:9
and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.

Luke 14:10
But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.

3 John 1:9
I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.

3 John 1:10
Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, he doesn’t receive the brothers himself, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.

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Matthew 26:56
But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.

John 13:14
If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

John 13:15
For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.

John 13:16
Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither is one who is sent greater than he who sent him.

John 13:18
I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’

1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

1 Corinthians 9:20
To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;

1 Corinthians 9:21
to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.

1 Corinthians 9:23
Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

Galatians 5:13
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom an an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Philippians 2:6
who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

1 Thessalonians 5:13
and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

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Proverbs 3:18
She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the afflicted are wretched, but one who has a cheerful heart enjoys a continual feast.

Matthew 20:20
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.

Matthew 20:25
But Jesus summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

Matthew 20:28
even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Luke 22:27
For who is greater, one who sits at the table, or one who serves? Isn’t it he who sits at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.

John 13:13
You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.

John 13:17
If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

Romans 12:2
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

Philippians 2:5
Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

Philippians 2:7
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.

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1 Corinthians 13:5
doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

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Psalms 25:9
He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

Psalms 59:12
For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

Psalms 147:6
Yahweh upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

Proverbs 13:10
Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

Galatians 6:1
Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Galatians 6:2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:3
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Galatians 6:4
But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

Galatians 6:5
For each man will bear his own burden.

2 Timothy 2:24
The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

2 Timothy 2:25
in gentleness correcting those who oppose him. Perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

2 Timothy 2:26
and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

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Job 36:22
Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

Psalms 75:10
I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

Psalms 89:16
In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.

Psalms 89:17
For you are the glory of their strength. In your favor, our horn will be exalted.

Isaiah 40:4
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.

Ezekiel 17:21
All his fugitives in all his bands will fall by the sword, and those who remain will be scattered toward every wind. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’

Ezekiel 21:6
“Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart and with bitterness.

James 1:9
Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

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1 Samuel 15:17
Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

Psalms 131:1
Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

Psalms 131:2
Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

Proverbs 6:16
There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

Proverbs 6:17
arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh; they shall certainly not be unpunished.

Isaiah 2:17
The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 23:9
Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

Ezekiel 28:4
By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries.

Daniel 5:24
Then the part of the hand was sent from before him, and this writing was inscribed.

1 Timothy 1:15
The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

James 4:9
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

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Proverbs 28:5
Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

Proverbs 29:22
An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

1 Peter 3:4
but from the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God’s sight.

1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

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Luke 13:30
Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last.”

Revelation 18:7
However much she glorified herself and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’

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Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”

Matthew 13:43
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

Matthew 19:28
Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Luke 7:28
“For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is greater than he.”

Luke 22:30
that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

Luke 22:31
The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,

Luke 22:34
He said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times.”

1 Peter 5:4
When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

Revelation 3:21
He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Revelation 21:14
The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

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