Bible Dictionary: Humility: Exemplified

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Genesis 18:27,32
And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken on me to speak to the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
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Genesis 32:10
I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which you have showed to your servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
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Genesis 41:16
And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
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Exodus 3:11
And Moses said to God, Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
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Exodus 4:10
And Moses said to the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since you have spoken to your servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
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2 Samuel 7:18,19
Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that you have brought me till now?
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1 Kings 3:7
And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
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1 Chronicles 17:17
And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O God; for you have also spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.
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1 Chronicles 29:14
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of you, and of your own have we given you.
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2 Chronicles 1:10
Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this your people, that is so great?
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2 Chronicles 2:6
But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him?
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Ezra 9:13
And after all that is come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that you our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such deliverance as this;
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Job 7:17,18
What is man, that you should magnify him? and that you should set your heart on him?
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Job 9:14,15
How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?
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Job 10:15
If I be wicked, woe to me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see you my affliction;
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Job 33:6
Behold, I am according to your wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
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Job 40:4,5
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand on my mouth.
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Job 42:4-6
Hear, I beseech you, and I will speak: I will demand of you, and declare you to me.
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Psalm 8:3,4
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;
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Psalm 73:22
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.
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Psalm 131:1,2
Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
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Psalm 141:5
Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
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Psalm 144:3,4
LORD, what is man, that you take knowledge of him! or the son of man, that you make account of him!
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Proverbs 30:2,3
Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
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Isaiah 6:5
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the middle of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
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Isaiah 38:15
What shall I say? he has both spoken to me, and himself has done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.
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Jeremiah 1:6
Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
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Jeremiah 10:23,24
O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walks to direct his steps.
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Daniel 2:30
But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that you might know the thoughts of your heart.
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Matthew 3:14
But John forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of you, and come you to me?
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Matthew 8:8
The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
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Matthew 15:27
And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
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Matthew 25:37-40
Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we you an hungered, and fed you? or thirsty, and gave you drink?
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Luke 7:6,7
Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, Lord, trouble not yourself: for I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof:
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John 1:27
He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's lace I am not worthy to unloose.
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John 3:29,30
He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
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Acts 3:12
And when Peter saw it, he answered to the people, You men of Israel, why marvel you at this? or why look you so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
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Romans 7:18
For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.
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1 Corinthians 15:9,10
For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
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2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
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2 Corinthians 12:7
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.
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Ephesians 3:8
To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
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Philippians 3:12,13
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
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Philippians 4:12
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
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1 Timothy 1:15
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
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Revelation 4:10
The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that lives for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
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Heavenly Contemplation Exemplified, and the Whole Work Concluded.
... HEAVENLY CONTEMPLATION EXEMPLIFIED, AND THE WHOLE WORK CONCLUDED. ... nor shall flesh
and spirit be combating within me; nor faith and unbelief, humility and pride ...
/.../the saints everlasting rest/chapter xvi heavenly contemplation exemplified.htm

Abraham, his Trial in Egypt; his Humility
... INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Abraham, his trial in Egypt, his humility. ... Humility, its tokens
and blessing, [860]4; its origin, [861]5; exalts to heaven, [862]249. ...
/.../abraham his trial in egypt.htm

Hebrew Captives; Or, Mordecai and Esther.
... that startled its slumbering inmates. [Illustration: Humility Exemplified"
Giving Alms in Secret.]. It was told Esther, and she ...
/.../headley/half hours in bible lands volume 2/hebrew captives or mordecai and.htm

Luke i. 3,4.
... up, wanting in a teachable spirit, without faith, without humility, because he ... and,
at last, to standing alone, this has perpetually exemplified our relations ...
//christianbookshelf.org/arnold/the christian life/lecture xxxii luke i 34.htm

Transformed by Grace
... In the life of the disciple John true sanctification is exemplified. ... the tenderness
and forbearance of Jesus, and heard His lessons of humility and patience. ...
/.../white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 55 transformed by grace.htm

Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity the Christian Calling and Unity.
... ensue as numerous as the teachers and their creeds; as exemplified in the ... Under such
circumstances, none of the virtues like humility, meekness, patience, love ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol iii/seventeenth sunday after trinity the.htm

He Compares the Doctrine of the Platonists Concerning the Logos ...
... and the meek will He teach His way;" [516] looking upon our humility and our ... Thus
in his experience was exemplified the truth embodied in the saying of Clemens ...
/.../the confessions and letters of st/chapter ix he compares the doctrine.htm

Homilies on Galatians and Ephesians.
... Boasting in self ultimately leads to humility, [61]44 ... Government, in its origin paternal,
[302]82; must be centered in one, [303]146; exemplified in a household ...
/.../homilies on galatians and ephesians.htm

About Adam Clarke
... The heart from which it [pride] is cast out has the humility, meekness and ... some 30
years after Wesley died, Clarke saw this glorious doctrine exemplified by a ...
//christianbookshelf.org/clarke/entire sanctification/about adam clarke.htm

Limits of God's Plan for Human Salvation
... supposed to be a sufficient cause for them to despise the humility of the ... deign to
grant salvation to the exalted"a paradox we have already seen exemplified. ...
/.../augustine/handbook on faith hope and love/chapter xxvii limits of gods.htm

Subtopics

Humility

Humility is Before Honor

Humility: A Characteristic of Saints

Humility: Abraham

Humility: Afflictions Intended to Produce

Humility: Ahab

Humility: Blessedness of

Humility: Centurion

Humility: Christ an Example of

Humility: Cornelius

Humility: David