25 Bible Verses About Being Humble and Kind
Imagine how different the world would be if all people aimed to be humble and kind. We might not be able to change others, but we can take steps to align ourselves with God for change. Today, we’ll explore 25 Bible verses about being humble and kind.
I’ll also share an inspiring story about a man who changed the world through a simple act of kindness.
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Bible Verses About Being Humble and Kind
Let’s start by looking at these Bible verses about being humble and kind.
25 Bible Verses About Being Humble and Kind
1. 1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant.
2. 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.”
3. James 4:6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
4. James 4:10
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
5. Deuteronomy 8:2
And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
6. 2 Chronicles 34:27
Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.
7. Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
8. Psalm 149:4
For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.
9. Proverbs 3:34
Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.
10. Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
11. Proverbs 29:23
One’s pride will bring him low, but he who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
12. John 12:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
13. John 13:34-35
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
14. John 3:30
He must increase, but I must decrease.
15. 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.”
16. Luke 14:11
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
17. Luke 10:27
And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
18. Matthew 18:4
Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
19. Matthew 7:21-23
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
20. Matthew 7:12
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
21. Matthew 5:3
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
22. 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.
23. Proverbs 17:17
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
24. Proverbs 16:19
It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.
25. 2 Corinthians 11:30
If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
Let’s now shift gears as we apply these Bible verses about being humble and kind to our lives.
Apply These Bible Verses About Being Humble and Kind to Your Life
Julio Diaz gets off the train like it’s any other day. His mind is fixed on grabbing a bite to eat at his favorite café. It’s an ordinary day in an ordinary place.
Nothing about the day leads Julio to believe he might change someone’s life. He’s not thinking about how to change the world.
As Julio gets off the train, a young teenager approaches with a knife. The teen wants Julio’s wallet.
After giving up the wallet, Julio turns to the young man and hands him his coat, saying, “If you’re gonna be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm.”
How to Change the World
Julio convinces the young man to join him for dinner. He says to the boy, “What is it that you want out of life?”
The boy doesn’t know. His expression is filled with sorrow.
When the bill for dinner comes, Julio convinces the boy to return his wallet and treats him to dinner. He offers the boy twenty dollars in exchange for one item: the knife. The boy agrees, and for Julio, the story seems to end here.
I read this story on The Daily Good News sight not long ago. It seems the story ends with Julio’s gift of money and the boy’s surrender of the knife. Julio is a difference-maker in the truest sense of the term, and the boy’s day takes a radical shift in a different direction. But surely, the story doesn’t end here.
Maybe the boy grew up to be a respectable man. Maybe he quit threatening people and asking for their money. Or maybe he went out the next evening and robbed ten more people. We might never know.
What we do know is that an act of kindness never falls on blind eyes.
Even when no one notices, even when it seems our sacrifice failed to make the difference we hoped, God sees every quiet act of act of kindness, and he is pleased.
The Power of Kindness
It’s easy to grow frustrated when our kindness is met with disdain. It’s easy to throw in the towel when our sacrifice doesn’t seem to make the slightest bit of difference in another person’s life.
Choose kindness anyway.
When a family member crosses you, and your blood boils wildly, choose kindness. Choose it if no one will see. Choose it if you don’t think you can. This is the secret to how to change the world.
Help an elderly person load groceries into the car.
Respond to your irritable toddler with kindness.
When you’re cut off in traffic, choose kindness.
Don’t force your words in an effort to be right.
Being kind is as simple as treating others the way we want to be treated, a golden rule that could change the world.
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References:
A Case for Kindness: Lisa Barrickman
http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=3678
