42 Bible Verses about Self Esteem

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own conceits.

So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Such confidence we have through Christ toward God;

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

A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

It happened, when all our enemies heard [of it], that all the nations that were about us feared, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was worked of our God.

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

But these things don't count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

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

though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

Therefore don't throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

Beloved, if our hearts don't condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

"I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

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

and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

and to respect and honor them in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

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

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

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

Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety;

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious.

Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be," says Yahweh: "but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

The work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.