Proverbs 29:23
Good News Translation
Arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.

New Revised Standard Version
A person’s pride will bring humiliation, but one who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.

Contemporary English Version
Too much pride brings disgrace; humility leads to honor.

New American Bible
Haughtiness brings humiliation, but the humble of spirit acquire honor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Humiliation followeth the proud: and glory shall uphold the humble of spirit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Humiliation followeth the proud: and glory shall uphold the humble of spirit.

man's

Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction, the heart of a man is exalted: and before he be glorified, it is humbled.

2 Chronicles 32:25,26 But he did not render again according to the benefits which he had received, for his heart was lifted up: and wrath was enkindled against him, and against Juda and Jerusalem. . . .

2 Chronicles 33:10-12,23,24 And the Lord spoke to his people, and they would not hearken. . . .

Job 22:29 For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.

Job 40:12 Look on all that are proud, and confound them, and crush the wicked in their place,

Isaiah 2:11,12 The lofty eyes of man are humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be made to stoop: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. . . .

Daniel 4:30-37 The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor, and he was driven away from among men, and did eat grass, like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like birds' claws. . . .

Daniel 5:20,21 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto pride, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory was taken away. . . .

Luke 14:11 Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Luke 18:14 I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Acts 12:23 And forthwith an angel of the Lord struck him, because he had not given the honour to God: and, being eaten up by worms, he gave up the ghost.

James 4:6-10 But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble. . . .

1 Peter 5:5 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

honour

Proverbs 15:33 The fear of the Lord is the lesson of wisdom: and humility goeth before glory.

Deuteronomy 8:2,3,16 And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were known in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no. . . .

Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 66:2 My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my words?

Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 23:12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Context
The Stiff-Necked will Be Destroyed
22A passionate man provoketh quarrels: and he that is easily stirred up to wrath, shall be more prone to sin. 23Humiliation followeth the proud: and glory shall uphold the humble of spirit.24He that is partaker with a thief, hateth his own soul: he heareth one putting him to his oath, and discovereth not.…
Cross References
Matthew 23:12
And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Luke 14:11
Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Luke 18:14
I say to you, this man went down into his house justified rather than the other: because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

James 4:6
But he giveth greater grace. Wherefore he saith: God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble.

James 4:10
Be humbled in the sight of the Lord: and he will exalt you.

Proverbs 11:2
The simplicity of the just shall guide them: and the deceitfulness of the wicked shall destroy them.

Proverbs 15:33
The fear of the Lord is the lesson of wisdom: and humility goeth before glory.

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall.

Proverbs 16:19
It is better to be humbled with the meek, than to divide spoils with the proud.

Proverbs 17:19
He that studieth discords, loveth quarrels: and he that exalteth his door, seeketh ruin.

Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction, the heart of a man is exalted: and before he be glorified, it is humbled.

Proverbs 22:4
The fruit of humility is the fear of the Lord, riches and glory and life.

Isaiah 66:2
My hand made all these things, and all these things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my words?

Daniel 4:30
The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor, and he was driven away from among men, and did eat grass, like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like birds' claws.

Daniel 4:31
Now at the end of the days, I, Nabuchodonosor, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my sense was restored to me: and I blessed the most High, and I praised and glorified him that liveth for ever: for his power is an everlasting power, and his kingdom is to all generations.

Proverbs 29:22
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