The Humility of Christ
37 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
20 sections
- Declared by Himself
- Exhibited in His: Associating with the Despised
- Exhibited in His: Becoming a Servant
- Exhibited in His: Birth
- Exhibited in His: Death
- Exhibited in His: Entry Into Jerusalem
- Exhibited in His: Exposing Himself to Reproach and Contempt
- Exhibited in His: Obedience
- Exhibited in His: Partaking of Our Infirmities
- Exhibited in His: Poverty
- Exhibited in His: Refusing Honors
- Exhibited in His: Station in Life
- Exhibited in His: Subjection to his Parents
- Exhibited in His: Submitting to Ordinances
- Exhibited in His: Submitting to Sufferings
- Exhibited in His: Taking Our Nature
- Exhibited in His: Washing his Disciples' Feet
- His Exaltation, the Result of
- On Account of, he Was Despised
- Saints should Imitate
Declared by Himself
- Matthew 11:29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Exhibited in His: Associating with the Despised
- Matthew 9:10–11 Later, as Jesus was dining at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with Him and His disciples. …
- Luke 15:1–2 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were gathering around to listen to Jesus. …
Exhibited in His: Becoming a Servant
- Matthew 20:28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
- Luke 22:27 For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you as one who serves.
- Philippians 2:7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.
Exhibited in His: Birth
- Luke 2:4–7 So Joseph also went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, since he was from the house and line of David. …
Exhibited in His: Death
- John 10:15 just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
- John 10:17–18 The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again. …
- Philippians 2:8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death — even death on a cross.
- Hebrews 12:2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Exhibited in His: Entry Into Jerusalem
- Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
- Matthew 21:5 “Say to the Daughter of Zion, ‘See, your King comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
- Matthew 21:7 They brought the donkey and the colt and laid their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them.
Exhibited in His: Exposing Himself to Reproach and Contempt
- Psalm 22:6 But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
- Psalm 69:9 because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
- Romans 15:3 For even Christ did not please Himself, but as it is written: “The insults of those who insult You have fallen on Me.”
- Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
Exhibited in His: Obedience
- John 6:38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
- Hebrews 10:9 Then He adds, “Here I am, I have come to do Your will.” He takes away the first to establish the second.
Exhibited in His: Partaking of Our Infirmities
- Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who was tempted in every way that we are, yet was without sin.
- Hebrews 5:7 During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
Exhibited in His: Poverty
- Luke 9:58 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.”
- 2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
Exhibited in His: Refusing Honors
Exhibited in His: Station in Life
- Matthew 13:55 “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son? Isn’t His mother’s name Mary, and aren’t His brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?
- John 9:29 We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from.”
Exhibited in His: Subjection to his Parents
- Luke 2:51 Then He went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But His mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
Exhibited in His: Submitting to Ordinances
- Matthew 3:13–15 At that time Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. …
Exhibited in His: Submitting to Sufferings
- Isaiah 50:6 I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
- Isaiah 53:7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- Acts 8:32 The eunuch was reading this passage of Scripture: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before the shearer is silent, so He did not open His mouth.
- Matthew 26:37–39 He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. …
Exhibited in His: Taking Our Nature
- Philippians 2:7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.
- Hebrews 2:16 For surely it is not the angels He helps, but the descendants of Abraham.
Exhibited in His: Washing his Disciples' Feet
- John 13:5 After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and dry them with the towel that was around Him.
His Exaltation, the Result of
- Philippians 2:9 Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,
On Account of, he Was Despised
Saints should Imitate
- Philippians 2:5–8 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.