HUMILITY

- Necessary to the service of God Mic 6:8 - Christ an example of Mt 11:29; Joh 13:14,15; Php 2:5-8 - A characteristic of saints Ps 34:2 - THE WHO HAVE . Regarded by God Ps 138:6; Isa 66:2 . Heard by God Ps 9:12; Isa 10:17 . Enjoy the presence of God Isa 57:15 . Delivered by God Job 22:29 . Lifted up by God Jas 4:10 . Exalted by God Lu 14:11; 18:14 . Are greatest in Christ's kingdom Mt 18:4; 20:26-28 . Receive more grace Pr 3:34; Jas 4:6 . Upheld by honour Pr 18:12; 29:23 - Is before honour Pr 15:33 - Leads to riches, honour, and life Pr 22:4 - SAINTS SHOULD . Put on Col 3:12 . Be clothed with 1Pe 5:5 . Walk with Eph 4:1,2 . Beware of false Col 2:18,23 - Afflictions intended to produce Le 26:41; De 8:3; La 3:20 - Want of, condemned 2Ch 33:23; 36:12; Jer 44:10; Da 5:22 - Temporal judgments averted by 2Ch 7:14; 12:6,7 - Excellency of Pr 16:19 - Blessedness of Mt 5:3 - Exemplified . Abraham Ge 18:27 . Jacob Ge 32:10 . Moses Ex 3:11; 4:10 . Joshua Jos 7:6 . Gideon Jud 6:15 . David 1Ch 29:14 . Hezekiah 2Ch 32:26 . Manasseh 2Ch 33:12 . Josiah 2Ch 34:27 . Job Job 40:4; 42:6 . Isaiah Isa 6:5 . Jeremiah Jer 1:6 . John the Baptist Mt 3:14 . Centurion Mt 8:8 . Woman of Canaan Mt 15:27 . Elizabeth Lu 1:43 . Peter Lu 5:8 . Paul Ac 20:19

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The opposite of pride, in its nature and in the degree of its prevalence. It is often extolled in the Bible, Pr 15:33 16:19; and the Savior especially exalts it, Mt 18:4, and ennobles and endears it by his own example, Joh 13:4-17 Php 2:5-8. Every created being, however holy, should possess it; but in the character of the sinful sons of men it should become a fundamental and allpervading trait, to continue forever.

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Humility. Humility
A prominent Christian grace (Rom. 12:3; 15:17, 18; 1 Cor. 3:5-7; 2 Cor. 3:5; Phil. 4:11-13). It is a state of mind well pleasing to God (1 Pet. 3:4); it preserves the soul in tranquillity (Ps. 69:32, 33), and makes us patient under trials (Job 1:22).

Christ has set us an example of humility (Phil. 2:6-8). We should be led thereto by a remembrance of our sins (Lam. 3:39), and by the thought that it is the way to honour (Prov. 16:18), and that the greatest promises are made to the humble (Ps. 147:6; Isa. 57:15; 66:2; 1 Pet. 5:5). It is a “great paradox in Christianity that it makes humility the avenue to glory.”

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HUMILITY. → General scriptures concerning De 9:4-29; 15:15; 32:7; Job 5:11; 22:29; 25:5,6; Ps 9:12; 10:17; 22:6,26; 25:9; 37:11; 69:32; 86:1; 131:1,2; 138:6; 147:6; Pr 3:34; 10:8; 11:2; 12:15; 15:33; 16:19; 18:12; 22:4; 25:6,7; 27:2; 29:23; 30:32; Ec 5:2; Isa 29:19; 51:1; 57:15; 66:2; Jer 45:5; Eze 16:63; Mic 6:8; Zep 3:11,12; Mt 5:3; 11:29; 18:2-4; 20:26,27; 23:12; Mr 9:33-37; 10:43,44; Lu 1:52; 9:46-48; 10:21; 14:10,11; 17:10; 18:13,14; 22:24-27; Joh 13:14-16; Ro 11:18,20,25; 12:3,10,16; 1Co 1:28,29; 2:1-3; 3:18; 10:12; 13:4; 2Co 11:30; 12:5-12; Ga 5:26; 6:14; Eph 4:2; 5:21; Php 2:3-11; Col 3:12; Jas 1:9,10,19; 3:1; 4:6,10; 1Pe 5:3,5,6 → EXEMPLIFIED Ge 18:27,32; 32:10; 41:16; Ex 3:11; 4:10; 2Sa 7:18,19; 1Ki 3:7; 1Ch 17:17; 29:14; 2Ch 1:10; 2:6; Ezr 9:13; Job 7:17,18; 9:14,15; 10:15; 33:6; 40:4,5; 42:4-6; Ps 8:3,4; 73:22; 131:1,2; 141:5; 144:3,4; Pr 30:2,3; Isa 6:5; 38:15; Jer 1:6; 10:23,24; Da 2:30; Mt 3:14; 8:8; 15:27; 25:37-40; Lu 7:6,7; Joh 1:27; 3:29,30; Ac 3:12; Ro 7:18; 1Co 15:9,10; 2Co 3:5; 12:7; Eph 3:8; Php 3:12,13; 4:12; 1Ti 1:15; Re 4:10 → INSTANCES OF
* Joseph Ge 41:16
* David 1Sa 18:18-23; 24:14; 26:20; 2Sa 7:18-29; 1Ch 17:16-27
* Mephibosheth 2Sa 9:8
* Ahab 1Ki 21:29
* Josiah 2Ch 34:27
* Elihu Job 32:4-7
* Isaiah Isa 6:5
* Elisabeth Lu 1:43
* John the Baptist Mr 1:7; Lu 3:16
* Cornelius Ac 10:33
* Paul Ro 1:12; 16:7
* Peter Lu 5:8; 1Pe 5:1
* John Re 1:9

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humility|humbleness. Humility, or Humbleness, n. submission, modesty

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Hu‐mil″i‐ty (?), n.; pl. Humilities (#). [[OE. humilite, OF. humilité, humelité, F. humilité, fr. L. humiliatis. See Humble.]] 1. 1. The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinfulness; self-abasement; humbleness.
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind. Acts xx. 19. 2. 2. An act of submission or courtesy.
With these humilities they satisfied the young king. Sir J. Davies. Syn. — Lowliness; humbleness; meekness; modesty; diffidence. — Humility, Modesty, Diffidence. Diffidence is a distrust of our powers, combined with a fear lest our failure should be censured, since a dread of failure unconnected with a dread of censure is not usually called diffidence. It may be carried too far, and is not always, like modesty and humility, a virtue. Modesty, without supposing self-distrust, implies an unwillingness to put ourselves forward, and an absence of all over-confidence in our own powers. Humility consists in rating our claims low, in being willing to waive our rights, and take a lower place than might be our due. It does not require of us to underrate ourselves.