43 Bible Verses about Inferiority

"Right"," Gideon responded. "Sir, how will I deliver Israel? Look my family is the weakest in Manasseh, and I'm the youngest in my father's household."

But as for me, I am only a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by people.

It was in weakness, fear, and great trembling that I came to you.

Saul's officials delivered this message to David, and he asked, "Is becoming the king's son-in-law an unimportant thing to you? I'm a poor and unimportant man."

"Listen, our God, because we are being mocked. Let their insults fall back on them, and let them be dragged away as captives into exile.

For they all were trying to make us afraid by saying, "Their hands will become tired from laboring, so the work won't be completed." "Therefore, LORD, strengthen my hands!"

Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am in distress. My eyes have been consumed by my grief along with my soul and my body. My life is consumed by sorrow, my years with groaning. My strength has faltered because of my iniquity; my bones have been consumed.

As for me, I am poor and needy. God, come quickly to me. You are my helper and my deliverer. LORD, please do not delay.

Don't let the oppressed return in humiliation. The poor and needy will praise your name.

LORD, listen and answer me, for I am afflicted and needy.

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

My soul clings to the dust; revive me according to your word.

The highways are deserted; travelers have quit the road. The enemy has broken treaties; he despises their witnesses, and respects no one.

"Is this man Jehoiachin a despised and shattered jar, a vessel no one wants? Why were he and his descendants hurled away, thrown into a land that they didn't know?

All her people groaned as they searched for food. They traded their valuables in order to eat, to keep themselves alive. Look, LORD, and see how I have become dishonored.

"So I also made you despised, humiliating you before all of the people, because you aren't following my ways and are showing partiality when you teach."

"How terrible it will be for me!" I cried, "because I am ruined! I'm a man with unclean lips, and I live among a people with unclean lips! And my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies!"

"How blessed are those who are destitute in spirit, because the kingdom from heaven belongs to them!

When Simon Peter saw this, he fell down at Jesus' knees and said, "Leave me, Lord! I am a sinful man!" -

At this point, David told Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD."

As a result, I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes."

LORD! Do not rebuke me in your anger; do not correct me in your wrath, because your arrows have sunk deep into me, and your hand has come down hard on me. My body is unhealthy due to your anger, and my bones have no rest due to my sin.read more.
My iniquities loom over my head; like a cumbersome burden, they are too heavy for me. My wounds have putrefied and festered because of my foolishness. I am bent over and walk about greatly bowed down; all day long I go around mourning. My insides are burning and my body is unhealthy. I am weak and utterly crushed; I cry out in distress because of my heart's anguish. Lord, all my longings are before you, and my groaning is not hidden from you. My heart pounds, my strength fails me, even the gleam in my eye is gone. As for my friends and my neighbors, they stand aloof from my distress; even my close relatives stand at a distance. Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning. I am like the deaf, who cannot hear, and like the mute, who cannot open his mouth. Indeed, I have become like a man who hears nothing, and in whose mouth there is no rebuke. Because I have placed my hope in you, LORD, you will answer, Lord, my God. For I said, "Do not let them gloat over me, as they congratulate themselves when my foot slips." Indeed, I am being set up for a fall, and I am continuously reminded of my pain. I confess my iniquity, and my sin troubles me. But my enemies are alive and well; those who hate me for no reason are numerous. They reward my good with evil, opposing me because I seek to do good. Don't forsake me, LORD. My God, do not be so distant from me. Come quickly and help me, Lord, my deliverer. To the Director: To Jeduthun. A Davidic Psalm.

For I acknowledge my transgression; my sin remains continuously before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned, and done what was evil in your sight. As a result, you are just in your pronouncement and clear in your judgment. Indeed, in iniquity I was brought forth; in sin my mother conceived me.

When I saw him, I fell down at his feet like a dead man. But he placed his right hand on me and said, "Stop being afraid! I am the first and the last,

You say, "I am rich. I have become wealthy. I don't need anything." Yet you don't realize that you are miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

But now the LORD has spoken again: "Within three years, like the years of a contract worker, Moab's glory will be brought into contempt, in spite of all its great multitude, and its survivors will be very few and of no importance."

Indeed, I'll make you the least of the nations, despised among men.

the least significant of kingdoms. It will never again dominate other nations. I will make them so small that they will never again rule any nation.

Like you, I also have understanding. I'm not inferior to you; who doesn't know things like this?"

Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but be an example for other believers in your speech, behavior, love, faithfulness, and purity.

What you know, I know, too; I'm not inferior to you.

A disciple is not better than his teacher. But everyone who is fully-trained will be like his teacher.

"A disciple is not above his teacher, and a slave is not above his master.

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, a servant isn't greater than his master, and a messenger isn't greater than the one who sent him.

Remember what I told you: "A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.

For I am the least of the apostles and not even fit to be called an apostle because I persecuted God's church.

To me, the very least of all the saints, this grace was given so that I might proclaim to the gentiles the immeasurable wealth of the Messiah

Then he told them, "Whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me, because the one who is least among all of you is the one who is greatest."

I tell all of you with certainty, among those born of women no one has appeared who is greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom from heaven is greater than he.

I tell you, no one has ever been born who is greater than John. Yet even the least important person in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

So whoever sets aside one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom from heaven. But whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom from heaven

This is a trustworthy saying that deserves complete acceptance: To this world Messiah came, sinful people to reclaim. I am the worst of them. But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the worst sinner, the Messiah Jesus might demonstrate all of his patience as an example for those who would believe in him for eternal life.

"After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to yours, and then a third kingdom of bronze will arise to rule all the earth.