What Does the Bible Say About Humiliating Other?

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 47 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Titus 3:1-15 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work, to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people. For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, ...

Galatians 6:1-18 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. For each will have to bear his own load. ...

James 5:1-20 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ...

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 15 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

John 13:35 ESV / 14 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Psalm 55:21 ESV / 14 helpful votes

His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 13 helpful votes

So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, ...

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 5:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Matthew 23:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness.

1 John 3:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Habakkuk 2:15-16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision! The cup in the Lord's right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory!

Acts 8:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes

In his humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation? For his life is taken away from the earth.”

Acts 7:60 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Romans 12:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 11:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. ...

Philippians 2:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Romans 2:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Proverbs 21:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Job 16:4-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I also could speak as you do, if you were in my place; I could join words together against you and shake my head at you. I could strengthen you with my mouth, and the solace of my lips would assuage your pain.

Matthew 26:39 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”

36 Bible Verses about Humiliating Other

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 48 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Titus 3:1-15 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Galatians 6:1-18 ESV / 20 helpful votes

James 5:1-20 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 15 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

John 13:35 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Psalm 55:21 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 13 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Galatians 5:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Matthew 23:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 John 3:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Habakkuk 2:15-16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Acts 8:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Acts 7:60 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Romans 12:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Matthew 11:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:1-28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Philippians 2:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 2:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 21:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Job 16:4-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 26:39 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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36 Bible Verses about Humiliating Other

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Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 48 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Titus 3:1-15 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Galatians 6:1-18 ESV / 20 helpful votes

James 5:1-20 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 15 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

John 13:35 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Psalm 55:21 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Philippians 2:1-30 ESV / 13 helpful votes

1 Peter 5:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Galatians 5:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Matthew 23:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes

1 John 3:18 ESV / 9 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Habakkuk 2:15-16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Acts 8:33 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Acts 7:60 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Romans 12:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Matthew 11:29 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 5:1-28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Philippians 2:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 2:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Proverbs 21:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Job 16:4-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 26:39 ESV / 5 helpful votes