Bible Verses About Personal Reflection

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

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

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

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

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

Therefore I said, Hearken to me; I also will shew mine opinion.

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?

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

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

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.

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

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

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?

I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

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

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:

Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

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

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

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

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

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

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

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

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

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

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

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