Quotes about Humility
And you have shown this day how well you have dealt with me; for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.
— 1 Samuel 24:18
When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and bowed before him.
— 1 Samuel 25:23
She fell at his feet and said, “My lord, may the blame be on me alone, but please let your servant speak to you; hear the words of your servant.
— 1 Samuel 25:24
She arose, then bowed facedown and said, “Here is your maidservant, ready to serve and to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.”
— 1 Samuel 25:41
and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken.”
— 2 Samuel 6:22
Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?
— 2 Samuel 7:18
And when Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he fell facedown in reverence. Then David said, “Mephibosheth!” “I am your servant,” he replied.
— 2 Samuel 9:6
Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”
— 2 Samuel 9:8
So the king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!” “I humbly bow before you,” said Ziba. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king!”
— 2 Samuel 16:4
and crossed at the ford to carry over the king’s household and to do what was good in his sight. When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king
— 2 Samuel 19:18
For your servant knows that I have sinned, so here I am today as the first of all the house of Joseph to come down to meet my lord the king.”
— 2 Samuel 19:20
You save an afflicted people, but Your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
— 2 Samuel 22:28