Quotes about Humility
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
— 1 Corinthians 5:6
The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?
— 1 Corinthians 6:7
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
— 1 Corinthians 8:1
The one who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.
— 1 Corinthians 8:2
But I have not used any of these rights. And I am not writing this to suggest that something be done for me. Indeed, I would rather die than let anyone nullify my boast.
— 1 Corinthians 9:15
So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.
— 1 Corinthians 10:12
Don’t you have your own homes in which to eat and drink? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What can I say to you? Shall I praise you for this? No, I will not!
— 1 Corinthians 11:22
and the parts we consider less honorable, we treat with greater honor. And our unpresentable parts are treated with special modesty,
— 1 Corinthians 12:23
If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.
— 1 Corinthians 13:3
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
— 1 Corinthians 13:4
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
— 1 Corinthians 13:5
For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
— 1 Corinthians 15:9