The best Bible verses for humility (ESV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for humility (ESV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,"Colossians 2:18
"Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,"Colossians 2:18
"These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh."Colossians 2:23
"serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews;"Acts 20:19
"to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people."Titus 3:2
"What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not."1 Corinthians 11:22
"“Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more."Isaiah 54:4
"For after I had turned away, I relented, and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh; I was ashamed, and I was confounded, because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’"Jeremiah 31:19
"As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him."Luke 13:17
"and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place."Luke 14:9
"for it is better to be told, “Come up here,” than to be put lower in the presence of a noble. What your eyes have seen"Proverbs 25:7
"She who bore seven has grown feeble; she has fainted away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, declares the LORD.”"Jeremiah 15:9
"In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.”"Acts 8:33
"and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.”"Malachi 2:9
"and they departed. When David was told concerning the men, he sent messengers to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and then return.”"1 Chronicles 19:5
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for humility (ESV) are Colossians 2:18, Colossians 2:23, Acts 20:19. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to humility (ESV) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for humility (ESV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.