33 Bible Verses about Self Esteem

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.

So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"

For by the grace given to me I say to every one among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith which God has assigned him.

Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.

He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

And the second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

But I do not consider my life of any account nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

in whom we have boldness and confidence of access through our faith in him.

though I myself have reasons for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:

Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

and you belong to Christ; and Christ belongs to God.

For we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh,

and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you the more, am I to be loved the less?

If you really fulfill the royal law, according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we treat with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,

First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation,

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by any human court; I do not even judge myself.

but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in God's sight.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

And this is the confidence which we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.