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Bible Verses About Self-Examination

23 verses · 9 aspects

Key Bible Verses

  1. How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.

  2. `Tremble ye, and do not sin;' Say ye thus in your heart on your bed, And be ye silent. Selah.

  3. Errors! who doth understand? From hidden ones declare me innocent,

  4. Try me, O Jehovah, and prove me, Purified are my reins and my heart.

  5. I remember my music in the night, With my heart I meditate, and my spirit doth search diligently:

  6. I have reckoned my ways, And turn back my feet unto Thy testimonies.

  7. Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,

  8. And see if a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a way age-during!

  9. Crooked is the heart above all things, And it is incurable--who doth know it?

  10. We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.

  11. Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.

  12. And being grieved exceedingly, they began to say to him, each of them, `Is it I, Sir?'

  13. And they began to be sorrowful, and to say to him, one by one, `Is it I?' and another, `Is it I?'

  14. so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord:

  15. and let a man be proving himself, and so of the bread let him eat, and of the cup let him drink;

  16. for if ourselves we were discerning, we would not be being judged,

  17. Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

  18. for if any one doth think himself to be something--being nothing--himself he doth deceive;

  19. and his own work let each one prove, and then in regard to himself alone the glorying he shall have, and not in regard to the other,

  20. for each one his own burden shall bear.

  21. because if our heart may condemn--because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.

  22. Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

  23. and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,