Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, 'Who can bring me down to the ground?

The Lord sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.

He must become greater; I must become less.

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, you who do what he commands. Seek righteousness, seek humility; perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the Lord’s anger.