Bible Verses About Self

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

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

For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.

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

But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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?

Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.

And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.

If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.

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

Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.

Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?

For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

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

Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?