42 Bible Verses about Inferiority

And he said to him, Oh, LORD, with what shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

But I am a worm, and no man, a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

And Saul's servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, Does it seem to you a light thing to be the king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

Hear, O our God, for we are despised, and turn back their reproach upon their own head, and give them up for a spoil in a land of captivity,

For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work that it not be done. But now, [O God], strengthen thou my hands.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in distress. My eye wastes away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing. My strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are wasted away.

But I am poor and needy. Make haste to me, O God. Thou are my help and my deliverer, O LORD. Delay thou not.

O let not he who is oppressed return ashamed. Let a poor and needy man praise thy name.

Bow down thine ear, O LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.

for I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

My soul clings to the dust. Enliven thou me according to thy word.

The highways lay waste. The wayfaring man ceases. [The enemy] has broken the covenant. He has despised the cities. He does not regard man.

Is this man Coniah a despised broken vessel? Is he a vessel in which none delights? Why are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into the land which they know not?

Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.

Then I said, Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, LORD of hosts.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, because the kingdom of the heavens is theirs.

But Simon Peter having seen, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, Depart from me, because I am a sinful man, Lord.

And David said to Nathan, I have sinned against LORD. And Nathan said to David, LORD also has put away thy sin; thou shall not die.

Therefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.

O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath, nor chasten me in thy hot displeasure. For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me severely. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine indignation, nor is there any health in my bones because of my sin.read more.
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. My wounds are loathsome and corrupt, because of my foolishness. I am pained and bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long. For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned because of the disquietness of my heart. LORD, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee. My heart throbs, my strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me. Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off. Those also who seek after my life lay snares [for me]. And those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all the day long. But I, as a deaf man, hear not. And I am as a mute man who opens not his mouth. Yea, I am as a man who hears not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. For in thee, O LORD, do I hope. Thou will answer, O LORD my God. For I said, Lest they rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they magnify themselves against me. For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me. For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin. But my enemies are energetic, [and] are strong, and those who hate me wrongfully are multiplied. They also who render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow the thing that is good. Forsake me not, O LORD. O my God, be not far from me. Make haste to help me, O LORD, my salvation.

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, that thou may be justified when thou speak, and {may prevail (LXX/NT)} when thou {are criticized (LXX/NT)}. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not, I am the first and the last,

Because thou say, I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing, and do not know that thou are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

But now LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude. And the remnant shall be very small and of no account.

For, behold, I have made thee small among the nations, and despised among men.

It shall be the basest of the kingdoms, nor shall it lift itself up any more above the nations. And I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who does not know such things as these?

Let no man disparage thy youth, but become an example of the faithful, in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

What ye know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

A disciple is not above his teacher, but every disciple who is fully developed will be as his teacher.

A pupil is not above his teacher, nor a bondman above his lord.

Truly, truly, I say to you, a bondman is not greater than his lord, nor is an apostle greater than he who sent him.

Remember the word that I said to you, A bondman is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.

For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

To me, a man less than the least of all the sanctified, this grace was given to preach good-news among the Gentiles, the unsearchable wealth of Christ,

and he said to them, Whoever may receive this child in my name receives me, and whoever may receive me receives him who sent me, for he who exists smaller among you all, this man will be great.

Truly I say to you, among men born of women there has not been raised a greater than John the immerser. Yet the smaller in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.

For I say to you, among men born of women there is not one prophet greater than John the immerser, yet the smaller in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

Whoever therefore may relax one of these least commandments, and may teach men so, he will be called least in the kingdom of the heavens. But whoever may do and may teach them, this man will be called great in the kingdom of the he

Faithful is the saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinful men, of whom I am foremost. But because of this I obtained mercy, so that in me, the foremost, Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.