Bible Verses about “ego”
The Bible contains 35 verses about ego across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.”
“Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.”
“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.”
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:”
“¶ ‹Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come› [again] ‹unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.›”
“¶ Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.”
“Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.”
“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth;”
“Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [ye] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.”
“And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”
“But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:”
“Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:”
“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:”
“Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind.”
“¶ Pride [goeth] before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
“¶ If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,”
“¶ Every one [that is] proud in heart [is] an abomination to the LORD: [though] hand [join] in hand, he shall not be unpunished.”
“‹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.›”
“Then said Jesus unto them, ‹When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am› [he], ‹and› [that] ‹I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.›”
“¶ A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.”
“And Jesus said unto him, ‹Why callest thou me good?› [there is] ‹none good but one,› [that is], ‹God.›”
“¶ By humility [and] the fear of the LORD [are] riches, and honour, and life.”
“¶ And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
“‹He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.›”
“¶ ‹If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.›”
“But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till [there was] no remedy.”
“Jehoiachin [was] eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.”
“And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.”
“¶ Zedekiah [was] one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.”
“And he did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD his God, [and] humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking] from the mouth of the LORD.”
“And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.”
“Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.”
“And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:”
“Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave [them] all into his hand.”
“And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all [these] he brought to Babylon.”