MODESTY
(See also Humility; Reasonableness)
accepting counsel: w25.07 2-4
becoming to youths: w88 3/15 20
before Jehovah: it-2 422-423
benefits: w20.08 12-13; w17.01 21; g01 2/8 11; w00 1/15 21-22; w94 9/1 21
coping with changes: w10 3/15 4-5
coping with uncertainty: w25.06 14-19; w17.01 25-26
Bible examples: w20.08 10-12; w00 3/15 22
Barnabas: bt 74
Barzillai: mwb22.07 2; w21.09 10; w18.09 9-10; w17.01 23; w07 7/15 14-15
Daniel: w20.08 11
David: w21.09 10; w10 3/15 4; w00 3/15 22
Esther: w23.12 20; mwb23.09 2; w17.01 25
Gideon: w23.06 3-4; w17.01 20-21; w05 1/15 26; w02 2/15 6-7; w00 8/1 16-18
Jesus Christ: cf 53-54; cl 154; w20.08 11-12; it-2 423; w17.01 25; w02 3/15 17; w00 3/15 22; w00 8/1 19
Jonah: jd 100
Moses: w91 10/15 24
Nehemiah: w17.01 23-24
Paul: w00 8/1 14-16
Peter: bt 29
Bible examples of lack:
Saul (King): w20.08 10-11
contrast with presumptuousness: w17.01 18-19
contributing factors:
accepting one’s place in Jehovah’s arrangement: w17.01 19-20
remembering past: w96 12/1 30-31
cultivating: w23.12 19-20; mwb22.09 6; w21.07 16; w17.01 26
discussion: it-2 422-424; w17.01 17-26; w00 3/15 21-24
dress: w23.12 20; w18.07 25; it-2 423-424; lvs 64-67; w17.01 24-25; w16.09 17-21; lv 56-58; jl lesson 8; yp1 79, 84; w09 2/15 20-21; yp 94-95; g89 10/8 11; w88 8/15 17; w87 9/15 14-15; w87 11/1 17
examples:
older branch committee member: w21.09 10-11
overseer of work in Austria during Nazi era: yb89 128-129
Witness cemetery: yb87 64
young pioneer speaks modestly to elderly man: be 191-192; yb88 47
Greek words: it-2 422
Hebrew words: it-2 422
Jehovah not modest: cl 201; w00 8/1 19
meaning of term: it-2 422; w17.01 18; jd 99; w00 3/15 21-22; w00 8/1 14; w88 3/15 19
not humility: cl 201; w10 3/15 4
not self-effacement: w01 1/15 3, 5
‘modest in walking with God’ (Mic 6:8): ijwbv article 25; w12 11/1 22; jd 99-105; w03 8/15 22-24; w88 3/15 19-20
not going beyond things written (1Co 4:6): it-2 423; w08 4/15 7
older people: w21.09 10-11; w15 6/1 8-9
personal limits: w04 8/15 24-25
prevents presumptuousness: it-2 681
regarding mental abilities: w99 12/1 26-28
regarding privileges of service: w17.01 21; w00 8/1 16-18
seeking Jehovah’s counsel: w08 8/15 11; w06 1/1 23
serving in background: w17.10 9
under test: w17.01 22-26
wisdom of: w02 5/15 25; w00 8/1 14-19; w90 12/15 23; w88 3/15 19-20