Humility of Christ, The

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• John 6:38 NT

  For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

• Hebrews 10:9 NT

  then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

• Isaiah 50:6 OT

  I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

• Isaiah 53:7 OT

  He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

• Acts 8:32 NT

  Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.

• Matthew 26:37-39 NT

  He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.” He went forward a little, fell on…

• Psalms 22:6 OT

  But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

• Psalms 69:9 OT

  For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

• Romans 15:3 NT

  For even Christ didn’t please himself. But, as it is written, “The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me.”

• Isaiah 53:3 OT

  He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

• John 10:15 NT

  even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

• John 10:17 NT

  Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

• John 10:18 NT

  No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”

• Philippians 2:8 NT

  And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

• Hebrews 12:2 NT

  looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

• Philippians 2:5-8 NT

  Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. And…

• Mark 6:3 NT

  Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

• Philippians 2:9 NT

  Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,