Proverbs 15:33
15:33 The fear of the Lord provides wise instruction,
and before honor comes humility.
Deuteronomy 8:2-3
8:2 Remember the whole way by which he
has brought you these forty years through the desert
so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
8:3 So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna.
He did this to teach you
that humankind
cannot live by bread
alone, but also by everything that comes from the
Lord’s mouth.
Deuteronomy 8:16
8:16 fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you
and eventually bring good to you.
Isaiah 57:15
57:15 For this is what the high and exalted one says,
the one who rules forever, whose name is holy:
“I dwell in an exalted and holy place,
but also with the discouraged and humiliated,
in order to cheer up the humiliated
and to encourage the discouraged.
Isaiah 66:2
66:2 My hand made them;
that is how they came to be,” says the Lord.
I show special favor to the humble and contrite,
who respect what I have to say.
Matthew 5:3
5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them.
Matthew 18:4
18:4 Whoever then humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 23:12
23:12 And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.