Quotes About Humility

Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.

“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.

Please accept my gift that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.” So Jacob pressed him until he accepted.

“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”

He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.

“I myself cannot do it,” Joseph replied, “but God will give Pharaoh a sound answer.”

“Please, sir,” they said, “we really did come down here the first time to buy food.

When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought, and they bowed to the ground before him.

When Judah and his brothers arrived at Josephís house, he was still there, and they fell to the ground before him.

“What can we say to my lord?” Judah replied. “How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed the iniquity of your servants. We are now my lordís slaves—both we and the one who was found with the cup.”

Then Judah approached Joseph and said, “Sir, please let your servant speak personally to my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are equal to Pharaoh himself.

Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and departed from his presence.

“You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lordís eyes, and we will be Pharaohís servants.”

Then Joseph removed his sons from his fatherís knees and bowed facedown.

Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your fatherís sons shall bow down to you.

Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.

His brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”

But Joseph replied, “Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God?

But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said. “The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ëHow long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

Pharaoh quickly summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.