Matthew 23:12

1 Peter 5:5; Daniel 4:37; Isaiah 57:15; James 4:6; Job 22:29; Luke 1:51; Luke 1:52; Luke 14:11; Luke 18:14; Matthew 18:4; Matthew 5:3; Proverbs 15:33; Proverbs 16:18; Proverbs 16:19; Proverbs 29:23; Psalms 138:6

Related Commentaries of Matthew 23:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 20:26 . He that shall humble himself ... - God will exalt or honor him that is humble, and that seeks a lowly place a...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

And whosoever (l) shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. (l) He seems to allude to the position of...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Warnings to the People and the Disciples. Matthew 23:2 f. Loisy regards this as an interpolation (by a Judaising redactor) out of harmony with...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

abased . humbled, as in next clause.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. Whosoever shall exalt himself, etc. - The way t...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Whosoever shall exalt himself— Dr. Doddridge observes, that our Saviour, by the frequent repetition of this maxim, seems to intimate, that he inten...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Denunciation of the Pharisees 1-36. Final denunciation of the Scribes and Pharisees. The other synoptists insert in this place a brief utterance d...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Whosoever shall exalt himself. — The precept seems to have been one which our Lord desired specially to imprint on the hearts of the disciples. It...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

6; Matthew 22:1-46 ; Matthew 23:1-39 Chapter 17 Conflict in the Temple - Matthew 21:18-46 - Matthew 22:1-46 - Matthew 23:1-39 IT had b...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Humbling the Self-exalted Matthew 23:1-12 These words were addressed to the disciples and the crowds that had gathered around. The Jewish relig...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This chapter is one of the most sublime and awful in the whole inspired volume. It records the last words of Jesus to the crowds. He summed up, He re...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

"Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, (2) Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: (3) All therefore whatsoever...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

CHARACTERISTICS OF A CHRISTIAN ‘And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.’ Matthew...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And whosoever shall exalt himself ,.... Above his fellow Christians, or fellow ministers, by entertaining too high an opinion of himself, by boastin...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. Ver. 12. And whosoever shall exalt himself,...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But he that is greatest among you , &c. If any one among you would in reality be greater than another, let him be the more condescending, kind,...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The Lord now turns to speak to the entire crowd, His disciples being mentioned as included. He warns them against the hypocrisy of scribes and Pharis...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Scribes and Pharisees Condemned; Cautions against Pride. 1 Then spake Jesus t...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ver. 11,12. We have what is in Matthew 23:12 twice in Luke, Luke 14:11 Luke 18:14 . These verses expound what went before, and let us know;...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Exhortation to His Disciples and The Crowds Not To Be Like the Scribes and Pharisees, But to Be Doers and Not Hearers Only, and Rather to Be Humble...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jesus Passes Judgment On The Scribes And Pharisees And Describes the Devastations Coming On The World Prior To His Coming Again And The Judgment Tha...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Words in the Temple (23:1-39). a Exhortation to His disciples and the crowds not to be like the Scribes and Pharisees, but to be doers and not he...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, And whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.” Jesus finishes these important words off wit...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 23:1 . Then spake Jesus. —The day of grace is over for the leaders of the people; but for the people themselves there may...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 23:2 . Sit in Moses' seat. The sanhedrim had seventy one chairs of gold, or rather gilt with gold. The council which sat at Alexandria had...
The Biblical Illustrator

But be not ye called Rabbi. Christians are brethren The late Rev. Wm. Jay, in a sermon at Surrey Chapel, said “Some time ago a countryman obser...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 23:1-40 Denunciation of the scribes and Pharisees, and lamentation over Jerusalem which followed their guidance to her...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Humility required:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. With emphasis Christ singles out His discipl...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and he that shall humble himself shall he exalted — It is observable that no one sentence of our Lo...

¹² And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Related Commentaries of Matthew 23:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Matthew 23:12