Bible Verses About Self-Examination: General references

How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.

Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah

Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.

Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.

At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:

I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.

See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

They were deeply grieved and began to ask Him one after another, “Surely not I, Lord?”

They began to be grieved and to ask Him one after another, “Surely not I?”

Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.

Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.

Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.

Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?

If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.

For each one should carry his own load.