Bible Verses About Introspection

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the Lord pondereth the hearts.

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?

And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.

For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.

And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

Man’s goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?

What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.