Matthew 23:12

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But whosoeuer exalteth hym selfe, shalbe brought lowe: And he that humbleth hym selfe, shalbe exalted.

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  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise ye younger, submit your selues vnto the elder: Submit your selues euery man one to another, decke your selues inwardly in lowlynes of mynde: For God resisteth the proude, and geueth grace to the humble.
  • Jas 4:6 : 6 But the scripture offereth more grace, and therefore sayth, God resisteth the proude, but geueth grace vnto ye lowlie.
  • Luke 14:11 : 11 For whosoeuer exalteth hym selfe, shalbe brought lowe: And he that humbleth hym selfe, shalbe exalted.
  • Luke 18:14 : 14 I tell you, this man departed home to his house iustified, rather then the other. For euery one that exalteth hym selfe, shalbe brought lowe: And he that humbleth hym selfe, shalbe exalted.
  • Matt 18:4 : 4 Whosoeuer therfore shall humble hym selfe as this litle chylde, the same is ye greatest in the kingdome of heauen.
  • Prov 29:23 : 23 After pryde commeth a fall: but a lowly spirite bryngeth great worshyp.
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus saith the hye and excellent, euen he that dwelleth in euerlastingnesse, whose name is the holy one: I dwell hye aboue and in the sanctuarie, and with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirite do I dwell, that I may heale a troubled minde, and a contrite heart.
  • Dan 4:37 : 37 Now therfore I Nabuchodonozor prayse, and extol, & magnifie the king of heauen, whose workes are all trueth, & his wayes iudgement, and those that walke in pryde he is able to abase.
  • Job 22:29 : 29 When the wicked be cast downe, thou shalt say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.
  • Ps 138:6 : 6 For though God be on high: yet he will haue respect vnto the lowly, and he wyll knowe the proude a farre of.
  • Prov 15:33 : 33 The feare of the Lorde is the ryght science of wisdome, and lowlynesse goeth before honour.
  • Prov 16:18-19 : 18 Pryde goeth before destruction, and an hygh mynde before the fall. 19 Better it is to be of humble mynde with the lowly, the to deuide the spoyles with the proude.
  • Matt 5:3 : 3 Blessed (are) the poore in spirite: for theirs is the kyngdome of heauen.
  • Luke 1:51-52 : 51 He hath shewed stregth with his arme, he hath scattered them that are proude, in the imagination of their heartes. 52 He hath put downe the myghtie fro their seates, and exalted them of lowe degree.

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    8 When thou art bydden of any man to a weddyng, syt not downe in the hyest rowme: lest a more honourable man then thou, be bydden of hym,

    9 And he, that bad hym and thee, come, and say to thee, geue this man rowme: & thou then begyn with shame, to take the lowest rowme.

    10 But when thou art bydden, go and syt in the lowest rowme, that when he that bad thee cometh, he may say vnto thee, friende syt vp hyer: Then shalt thou haue worshyppe in the presence of them that syt at meate with thee.

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    23 After pryde commeth a fall: but a lowly spirite bryngeth great worshyp.

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    15 Thus hath man a fall and is brought lowe, and the hygh loke of the proude shalbe layde downe.

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    4 Whosoeuer therfore shall humble hym selfe as this litle chylde, the same is ye greatest in the kingdome of heauen.

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    44 And whosoeuer of you wyll be the chiefest, shalbe seruaunt of all.

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