The best Bible verses for humility for tattoos include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for humility for tattoos, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience."Colossians 3:12
"Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience."Colossians 3:12
"Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom."James 3:13
"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves."Philippians 2:3
"In your majesty ride forth victoriously in behalf of truth, humility and righteousness; let your right hand display awesome deeds."Psalms 45:4
"Young men, in the same way be submissive to those who are older. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”"1 Peter 5:5
"I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, although I was severely tested by the plots of the Jews."Acts 20:19
"to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and to show true humility toward all men."Titus 3:2
"When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing."Luke 13:17
"it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than for him to humiliate you before a nobleman. What you have seen with your eyes"Proverbs 25:7
"Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you for the prize. Such a person goes into great detail about what he has seen, and his unspiritual mind puffs him up with idle notions."Colossians 2:18
"Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence."Colossians 2:23
"Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the Lord’s anger."Zephaniah 2:3
"In his humiliation he was deprived of justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.”"Acts 8:33
"Don’t you have homes 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 praise you for this? Certainly not!"1 Corinthians 11:22
Length decides almost everything here. A verse that reads beautifully on a page can be unreadable once it is set in a small typeface, wrapped around a curve, or cropped to a square. The 15 verses below were chosen for brevity first — most run under a dozen words — so they stay legible at the size you will actually use them.
Self-contained meaning matters just as much. "Do not be anxious about anything" carries its full sense alone; a verse that opens with "Therefore" or "But" does not, and it will read as a fragment to anyone who encounters it without the surrounding passage. Every verse here stands on its own.
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The most-cited Bible verses for humility for tattoos are Colossians 3:12, James 3:13, Philippians 2:3. 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 for tattoos 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 for tattoos, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.