The best Bible verses for humility for today include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for humility for today, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves."Philippians 2:3
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"“Do not be afraid; you will not suffer shame. Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated. You will forget the shame of your youth and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood."Isaiah 54:4
"After I strayed, I repented; after I came to understand, I beat my breast. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’"Jeremiah 31:19
"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
A verse used for humility for today works differently from one you read once. It gets returned to, repeated, and sat with — so it needs enough depth to reward a second and tenth reading, and enough clarity that you are not decoding it every time.
The 15 passages here hold up to repetition. Each is short enough to carry from memory and substantial enough that it does not wear out.
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The most-cited Bible verses for humility for today are Philippians 2:3, Proverbs 11:2, Proverbs 15:33. 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 today 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 today, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.