Humility & Servanthood

Colossians 3:12 - "Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience."

Ephesians 4:2 - "With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love."

Galatians 5:13 - "For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another."

Isaiah 57:15 - "For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: 'I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.'"

James 4:6 - "But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, 'God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.'"

James 4:10 - "Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you."

John 13:14-15 - "If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you."

Luke 14:11 - "For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

Mark 10:43-45 - "But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

Matthew 11:29 - "Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls."

Matthew 18:4 - "Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven."

Micah 6:8 - "He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?"

Philippians 2:3-4 - "Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others."

Philippians 2:5-8 - "Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross."

Proverbs 11:2 - "When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom."

Proverbs 15:33 - "The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor."

Proverbs 22:4 - "The reward for humility and fear of the Lord is riches and honor and life."

Romans 12:3 - "For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned."

Romans 12:10 - "Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor."

1 Peter 5:5-6 - "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.' Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you."