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100 Bible Verses about Meekness

Matthew 5:5 ESV / 343 helpful votes

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Titus 3:2 ESV / 279 helpful votes

To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.

Psalm 37:11 ESV / 248 helpful votes

But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace.

James 3:13 ESV / 239 helpful votes

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.

Matthew 11:29 ESV / 224 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 25:9 ESV / 206 helpful votes

He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way.

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 185 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Numbers 12:3 ESV / 184 helpful votes

Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth.

Colossians 3:12 ESV / 143 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

1 Peter 3:4 ESV / 141 helpful votes

But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

James 1:21 ESV / 131 helpful votes

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

Galatians 6:1 ESV / 121 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.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 118 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 116 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Zephaniah 2:3 ESV / 115 helpful votes

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the Lord.

2 Corinthians 10:1 ESV / 114 helpful votes

I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!—

Romans 12:14 ESV / 113 helpful votes

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them.

Galatians 5:23 ESV / 108 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 6:11 ESV / 102 helpful votes

But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

Psalm 147:6 ESV / 94 helpful votes

The Lord lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground.

Isaiah 29:19 ESV / 80 helpful votes

The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 75 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Isaiah 11:4 ESV / 75 helpful votes

But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

James 3:17 ESV / 72 helpful votes

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

1 Thessalonians 2:7 ESV / 68 helpful votes

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.

James 1:4 ESV / 67 helpful votes

And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

2 Timothy 2:24 ESV / 65 helpful votes

And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,

1 Peter 3:11 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Psalm 45:4 ESV / 61 helpful votes

In your majesty ride out victoriously for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; let your right hand teach you awesome deeds!

Psalm 22:26 ESV / 61 helpful votes

The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord! May your hearts live forever!

Matthew 5:9 ESV / 60 helpful votes

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Psalm 149:4 ESV / 60 helpful votes

For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.

Psalm 76:9 ESV / 59 helpful votes

When God arose to establish judgment, to save all the humble of the earth. Selah

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

2 Timothy 2:25 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,

Ecclesiastes 10:4 ESV / 55 helpful votes

If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.

1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 52 helpful votes

See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

2 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Ecclesiastes 7:8 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

2 Thessalonians 3:5 ESV / 48 helpful votes

May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.

Philippians 2:15 ESV / 48 helpful votes

That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Matthew 23:11 ESV / 48 helpful votes

The greatest among you shall be your servant.

Proverbs 25:15 ESV / 48 helpful votes

With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.

Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 47 helpful votes

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

Proverbs 16:19 ESV / 46 helpful votes

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 45 helpful votes

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

James 4:6-10 ESV / 44 helpful votes

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Luke 6:29 ESV / 43 helpful votes

To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either.

Matthew 18:1-4 ESV / 43 helpful votes

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 42 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Proverbs 15:1 ESV / 42 helpful votes

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

1 Peter 5:5-9 ESV / 39 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.” Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.

Colossians 3:12-13 ESV / 39 helpful votes

Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

Proverbs 15:18 ESV / 38 helpful votes

A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.

Titus 3:1-2 ESV / 34 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.

Proverbs 17:1 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 3:34 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.

1 Peter 2:18-23 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust. For this is a gracious thing, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. ...

Matthew 21:5 ESV / 32 helpful votes

“Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’”

Galatians 5:2 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.

Proverbs 14:29 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 29 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Hebrews 10:36 ESV / 29 helpful votes

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

Titus 2:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.

1 Timothy 6:12 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Matthew 12:19-20 ESV / 29 helpful votes

He will not quarrel or cry aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets; a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory;

Lamentations 3:28-30 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Let him sit alone in silence when it is laid on him; let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope; let him give his cheek to the one who strikes, and let him be filled with insults.

Isaiah 53:7 ESV / 29 helpful votes

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

James 1:21-22 ESV / 28 helpful votes

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

1 Peter 3:8 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—

Romans 14:19 ESV / 27 helpful votes

So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

Romans 12:3 ESV / 27 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.

1 Thessalonians 5:14 ESV / 26 helpful votes

And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.

Proverbs 19:11 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

Psalm 76:8 ESV / 26 helpful votes

From the heavens you uttered judgment; the earth feared and was still,

James 1:21-25 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Titus 2:9 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

Genesis 26:20-22 ESV / 25 helpful votes

The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah. And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”

James 4:6 ESV / 24 helpful votes

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

James 3:3 ESV / 24 helpful votes

If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well.

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake. ...

Matthew 16:24 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Matthew 5:38-42 ESV / 24 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

Jude 1:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes

But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Mark 9:50 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Zephaniah 3:11-12 ESV / 23 helpful votes

“On that day you shall not be put to shame because of the deeds by which you have rebelled against me; for then I will remove from your midst your proudly exultant ones, and you shall no longer be haughty in my holy mountain. But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord,

Amos 3:3 ESV / 23 helpful votes

“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?

Proverbs 29:8 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Scoffers set a city aflame, but the wise turn away wrath.

James 1:19 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;

1 Corinthians 6:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes

To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

Psalm 120:5-7 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar! Too long have I had my dwelling among those who hate peace. I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war!

Exodus 2:13 ESV / 22 helpful votes

When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, “Why do you strike your companion?”

2 Thessalonians 1:4 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.

Isaiah 42:1-4 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice. He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.

Philippians 2:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes

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

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