33 Bible Verses about Self Esteem

Be of the same mind among each other. Affect not high things, but be condescending to the lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.

So that we may with confidence say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

For, I say, by the grace which is given unto me, to every one that is among you, not to think of himself above what he ought to think; but to think soberly, as God has divided to every one the measure of faith.

And such confidence have we through Christ towards God:

And he said unto them, Ye are they who affect to be righteous persons before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men, is an abomination in the sight of God.

And the second is like to it, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

But now ye glory in your proud boastings: all such glorying is wicked.

Yet I make no account of any [suffering], nor regard my life as of any value to myself, farther than as I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord, to testify fully the Gospel of the grace of God.

who being in the form of God counted it no usurpation to claim equality with God:

in whom we have boldness and access with confidence to God by the faith of him.

Though I too might have confidence in the flesh; if any other man thinks that he may have confidence in the flesh, I may claim more:

Recede not therefore from your boldness of profession, which brings a great recompence of reward.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence towards God.

Let nothing be done contentiously or vain-gloriously; but in humility reckoning others superior to yourselves.

He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love.

So also faith, if it hath not works, is dead itself.

And the second, like it, is this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: there is no greater commandment than these.

and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

For we are the circumcision, who serve God in spirit, and glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.

and to account of them very highly in love for their work's sake. And live in peace among yourselves.

And I will most cheerfully spend and be spent for your souls, though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

If indeed ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have elected you out of the world, for this very cause the world hateth you.

and those parts which we esteem as the more dishonourable of the body, on them we bestow more abundant honour, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

Knowing this in the first place, that all scriptural prophecy is not from any man's own suggestions.

But it is my least consideration that I should be judged by you, or by human opinion: yea I decide not respecting myself.

but let it be the hidden man of the heart, with that incorruptible ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God highly valuable.

Love not the world, neither the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

And this is the confidence that we have towards him, that whatsoever we ask according to his will, he heareth us.

By this the children of God are manifestly seen, and the children of the devil. Every one that doth not practise righteousness, is not of God, and he that loveth not his brother.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength; and to love his neighbour as himself, is better than all burnt offerings, and sacrifices.

Some indeed do it in a spirit of envy and strife; but some also preach Christ with cordial good-will: