54 Bible Verses about Self Respect

And the second like it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

And the second like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. No other command is greater than these.

Therefore all whatever ye would that men should do to you, so also do ye to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Honour thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

For I say, by the race given me, to every one being with you, not to entertain a high opinion of one's self above what is fitting to think: but to think to be discreet, as God has divided the measure of faith to each.

For none at any time hates his own flesh; but brings it up and cherishes it, as also the Lord the church:

Also to me a heart like you; I fall not more than you: and with whom not like these?

And shall it be lifted up? Thou wilt hunt me as the lion, and thou wilt turn back, thou wilt show thyself wonderful upon me.

Strength and ornament her clothing; and she will laugh to the last day.

Although I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other think to have confidence in the flesh, I more:

For thou didst possess my reins: thou wilt cover me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I was wonderfully distinguished: thy works are wonders, and my soul knew greatly.

And I said in my security, I shall not be moved forever.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwells in you? If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

All things are lawful to me, but all are not profitable: all are lawful to me, but I will not be exercised by power under any. Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: and God will also leave unemployed this and them. And the body not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. And God also raised up the Lord, and us will he also raise up by his power.read more.
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? having taken the members of Christ, shall I make members of a harlot? It may not be. Or know ye not that he joined to a harlot is one body? for they shall be, he says, they two into one flesh. And he joined to the Lord is one spirit. Flee fornication. Every sin which if a man do is without the body; but he committing fornication sins against his own body. Or know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own? For ye were bought for a price: then glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are of God.

And what agreement to the temple of God with images? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God said, That I will dwell in them, and will go round about; and will be their God, and they shall be a people to me.

In whom also ye are builded together for the dwelling of God in the Spirit.

For every created thing of God good, and nothing thrown away, received with thanks:

And let the humble brother boast in his elevation: And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by.

But much rather the members of the body, seeming to be weak, are necessary: And what we think to be less honourable of the body, upon these we put more abundant honour; and our unseemly parts have more abundant decorum. And our becoming parts have no need: but God blended the body together, to the wanting having given more abundant honour:read more.
That no division be in the body; but the members should care the same for one another.

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our consciousness, that in simplicity and purity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we turned back in the world, and more eminently to you.

He speaking from himself, seeks his own glory: but he seeking the glory of him having sent him, he is true, and no injustice is in him.

And let each try his own work, and then in himself alone will he have boasting, and not in another.

Pray for us: for we have trusted that we have a good consciousness, in all things wishing to be well occupied.

And he will say, Thou shalt not fear, O man of desires: peace to thee; be strong, and be strong. And in his speaking with me I was strengthened, and saying, My lord shall speak; for thou didst strengthen me.

Jehovah my strength and song, and he shall be to me for salvation: this my God, and I will cause him to rest; the God of my father, and I will exalt him.

The Strong One strengthening me with strength: And he will leave his way blameless.

For thou my hope, O Lord Jehovah: my trust from my youth.

For thou the beauty of their stength, and in thine acceptance our horn shall be exalted.

Jah my strength and music, and he will be to me for salvation.

But the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the promulgation might be rendered perfectly certain, and all the nations might hear: and I was delivered out of the lion's mouth.

Is not thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the integrity of thy ways?

Honor to a man ceasing from strife: and every foolish one will be irritated.

For each of you to know how to possess his vessel in consecration and honour;

The aged men to be sober, grave, of sound mind, sound in the faith, in love, in patience.

For after my being turned back I was comforted; and after my knowing I struck upon the thigh: I was ashamed and also disgraced for I bore the reproach of my youth.

And it will be after this, and the king of the sons of Ammon will die, and Hanun his son will reign in his stead. And David will say, I will do mercy with Hanun son of Nahash, as his father did mercy with me. And David will send to comfort him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants will come to the land of the sons of Ammon. And the chiefs of the sons of Ammon will say to Hanun their lord, Is David honoring thy father in thine eyes, that he sent comforters to thee? is it not for the sake of searching out the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it, David sent his servants to thee?read more.
And Hanun will take David's servants, and shave half their beard, and cut off their garments in the half, even to their buttocks, and he will send them away. And they will announce to David, and he will send to meet them, for the men were greatly shamed. And the king will say, Sit down in Jericho till your beards spring up, and turn back

And it will be after this, Nahash king of the sons of Ammon will die, and his son will reign in his stead. And David will say, I will do mercy with Hanun son of Nahash, for his father did mercy with me. And David will send messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And David's servants will come to the land of the sons of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him. And the chiefs of the sons of Ammon will say to Hanun, Is David honoring thy father in thine eyes, that he sent comforters to thee? is it not in order to search out, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land, came his servants to thee?read more.
And Hanun will take David's servants and shave them, and cut off their garments in the half, even to the step, and he will send them away. And they will go and announce to David concerning the men; and he will send to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king will say, Sit in Jericho till your beard shall spring up, and turn ye back.

And it will be after this, and to Absalom son of David a fair sister, and her name Tamar; and Amnon, son of David, loved her. And Amnon will be pressed to be sick for sake of Tamar his sister, for she was a virgin; and it will be hard in the eyes of Amnon to do anything to her. And to Amnon a friend, and his name Jonadab, son of Shimeah, David's brother: and Jonadab a man exceeding wise.read more.
And he will say to him, Wherefore thou so weak, son of the king, in morning by morning? wilt thou not announce to me? and Amnon will say to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister. And Jonadab will say to him, Lie upon thy bed and be sick, and thy father coming to see thee, and say to him, Now my sister Tamar shall come and give me to eat bread and make the food before mine eyes, so that I shall see and eat from her hand. And Amnon will lie down and be sick: and the king will come to see him, and Amnon will say to the king, Will Tamar my sister come now, and she shall make before mine eyes two cakes, and I will eat from her hand. And David will send to Tamar, saying, Go now to the house of Amnon thy brother, and make food for him. And Tamar will go to the house of Amnon her brother, and he lay down. And she will take dough and knead, and make cakes before his eyes, and bake the cakes. And she will take a frying-pan and pour out before him; and he will refuse to eat. And Amnon will say, Bring out every man from me. And they brought forth every man from him. And Amnon will say to Tamar, Bring the cakes into the chamber, and I will eat from thine hand And Tamar will take the cakes which she made and bring to Amnon her brother into the chamber. And she will bring near to him to eat, and he will lay hold upon her and say, Come lie with me, my sister. And she will say to him, No, my brother, thou shalt not humble me; for so it shall not be done in Israel: thou shalt not do this folly. And I, whither shall I cause my reproach to go? and thou wilt be as one of the foolish in Israel. And now, speak now, to the king, and he will not withhold me from thee. And he would not hear to her voice; and he will be strong above her, and he will humble her and lie with her. And Amnon will hate her with great hatred, greatly; for great the hatred which he hated her above the love which he loved her. And Amnon will say to her, Arise, go. And she will say to him, No reasons: this evil great above the other which thou didst with me, to send me away. And he would not hear to her. And he will call his boy serving him, and say, Send away now this from me without, and fasten the door after her. And upon her a tunic reaching to the soles of the feet; for thus will the king's daughters, the virgins, be clothed with upper garments. And his attendant will bring her forth without, and he fastened the door after And Tamar will take ashes upon her head, and she rent the tunic reaching to the feet which was upon her, and she will put her hand upon her head and will go, going and crying. And Absalom her brother will say to her Was Amnon thy brother with thee? and now my sister be silent, he is thy brother; thou shalt not set thy heart to this word. And Tamar will remain, and she was desolate in the house of Absalom her brother. And king David heard all the words and it will kindle to him greatly. And Absalom spake not with Amnon, from evil and even to good: for Absalom hated Amnon for the word that he humbled Tamar his sister.

In the same moment the word was added upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven out from men, and he shall eat the green herb as oxen, and from the dew of the heavens his body shall be wet till that his hair was increased as eagles, and his nails as birds'.

For if any think to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself.

And thou saidst in thy heart, My strength and the bone of my handmade for me this wealth. And remember Jehovah thy God; for he gave to thee strength to make wealth in order to set up his covenant, which he sware to our fathers, as this day.

If his elevation shall go up to the heavens, and his head shall reach to the cloud; As his dung he shall perish forever: they seeing him shall say, Where is he?

Although I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other think to have confidence in the flesh, I more: Circumcision done the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; For zeal, driving out the church; for justice in the law, not to be found fault with.read more.
But what things were gain to me, these I have thought loss for Christ.

And now the younger than I laughed upon me, which I rejected their fathers to set with the dogs of my flock. Also the strength of their hands wherefore to me? Upon them old age perished. In want and in hunger, barren, gnawing the dry land, yesternight desolation and burning.read more.
Plucking off sea purslain upon the shrub, the root of broom their bread. They shall be driven forth from the midst, they shall cry after them as a thief: To dwell in the horror of the valleys, holes of the dust, and the rocks. Between the shrubs they will bray; they will be poured out under the thorn bush. The sons of the foolish one, also the sons of no name: they were beaten from the land. And now I was their song, and I to them for a by word. They abhorred me, they removed far from me, and withheld not spittle from my face. Because he loosed his cord and he will afflict me, and they cast off the bridle from before me. Upon the right the brood will rise up; they cast away my feet, and they will cast up the paths of their destruction against me. They tore up my beaten path, they helped for my fall, no help to them. They will come as a wide breach under a destroying tempest, they rolled themselves. Terror turned upon me, it will pursue my willingness as the wind, and my salvation passed away as a cloud.

And to him coming out of the ship, quickly a man met him from the monuments with an unclean spirit, Who had a dwelling among the monuments; and neither with chains could any one bind him: For he had been bound many times with fetters and chains, and the chains were torn asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: and none could tame him.read more.
And always, night and day, was he in the mountains, and among the monuments, crying, and mangling himself with stones.

And he coming upon land, a certain man met him from the city, who had demons of long times, and put on no garment, and abode not in a house, but in the tombs. And having seen Jesus and cried out, he fell before him, and with a great voice said, What to me and thee, Jesus, Son of God most high? I implore thee, thou wouldst not torment me. For he proclaimed to the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For many times it snatched him: and he was bound with chains, and being guarded with fetters; and bursting the bonds, he was driven by the demon into the deserts.

And a certain woman, being in a flowing of blood twelve years, And having suffered many things by many physicians, and having expended all of her own, and not having been benefited, but having come rather to the worse, Having heard concerning Jesus, having come in the crowd behind, she touched his garment.read more.
For she said, That if I touch his garment, I shall be saved.

And behold, a woman discharging blood twelve years, having come near behind, touched the hem of his garment: For she said in herself, If I should only touch the hem of his garment, I shall be saved. And Jesus having turned round, and seeing her, said, Take courage, daughter; thy faith has saved thee. And the woman was saved from that hour.

And a woman being in a flowing of blood for twelve years, who having expended all the means of subsistence upon physicians, could not be cured by any. Having come near behind, touched the hem of his garment: and immediately her flow of blood was stopped. And Jesus said; Who having touched me? And all denying, Peter said. and they with him: Ruler, the crowds hold with thee and press thee, and thou sayest, Who having touched me?read more.
And Jesus said, Somebody touched me: for I know power having gone out from me. And the woman having seen that she was not hid, came trembling, and having fallen before him, announced to him before all people for what cause she touched him, and how she was healed immediately. And he said to her. Take courage, Daughter: thy faith has saved thee; go in peace.

And not many days after, having gathered all things, the younger son went abroad into a far-off country, and there disposed his property, living in a profligate manner. And having spent all things, a powerful famine was in that country; and he began to be in want. And having gone, he was joined to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into the fields to feed swine.read more.
And he eagerly desired to fill his belly with the fruits of the horntree which the swine ate: and none gave to him.

And he coming to a certain town, ten leprous men met him, who stood far off: And they lifted up the voice, saying, Jesus, faster, pity us.

Brethren, if a man be taken in any fault, ye the spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; observing thyself narrowly, lest thou also be tempted.

An elder shouldest thou not reprove, but beseech as a father; the younger as brethren; The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

And truly compassionate some, discriminating: