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Bible Verses about “self examination”

The Bible contains 50 verses about self examination across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

1 John 1:9
1186 votes

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Psalms 139:14
865 votes

“I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.”

Psalms 139:13
607 votes

“For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.”

Psalms 139:15
495 votes

“My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.”

Psalms 139:16
493 votes

“Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.”

James 1:25
314 votes

“But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.”

James 1:23
313 votes

“For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;”

James 1:24
304 votes

“for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.”

1 Corinthians 11:28
253 votes

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

Romans 12:3
251 votes

“For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.”

1 Corinthians 11:29
242 votes

“For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy way eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he doesn't discern the Lord's body.”

1 Corinthians 11:30
237 votes

“For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.”

1 Corinthians 11:31
214 votes

“For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn't be judged.”

1 Corinthians 11:32
212 votes

“But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.”

Psalms 51:10
191 votes

“Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.”

Psalms 139:9
114 votes

“If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;”

Psalms 139:10
114 votes

“Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.”

Psalms 139:17
114 votes

“How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!”

Psalms 51:5
109 votes

“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.”

Psalms 139:7
107 votes

“Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?”

Psalms 139:18
105 votes

“If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.”

Psalms 139:4
103 votes

“For there is not a word on my tongue, but, behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.”

Psalms 139:8
101 votes

“If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!”

Psalms 139:23
97 votes

“Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.”

Psalms 139:24
97 votes

“See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.”

Psalms 139:1
96 votes

“Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.”

Psalms 51:12
94 votes

“Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.”

Psalms 139:2
94 votes

“You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.”

Psalms 139:3
94 votes

“You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.”

Psalms 139:12
93 votes

“even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.”

Psalms 139:11
91 votes

“If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"”

Psalms 139:5
90 votes

“You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.”

Psalms 139:6
90 votes

“This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.”

Psalms 139:19
86 votes

“If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!”

Psalms 139:20
86 votes

“For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.”

Psalms 139:21
86 votes

“Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?”

Psalms 139:22
86 votes

“I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.”

Galatians 6:5
84 votes

“For each man will bear his own burden.”

Galatians 6:4
78 votes

“But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.”

Psalms 51:11
77 votes

“Don't throw me from your presence, and don't take your holy Spirit from me.”

Galatians 6:3
74 votes

“For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.”

Psalms 51:7
70 votes

“Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.”

Acts 17:30
57 votes

“The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,”

Psalms 51:17
49 votes

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.”

2 Corinthians 13:5
49 votes

“Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?--unless indeed you are disqualified.”

Psalms 51:9
32 votes

“Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all of my iniquities.”

Psalms 51:2
30 votes

“Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.”

Psalms 51:3
30 votes

“For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.”

Psalms 51:4
30 votes

“Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.”

Psalms 51:8
30 votes

“Let me hear joy and gladness, That the bones which you have broken may rejoice.”

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