18 Bible Verses about Examining Yourself

How many wrongs and sins have I committed? Show me my transgressions and my sin.

Tremble, stand in awe and do not sin! Meditate in your heart upon your bed, and keep silent.

When I kept silent about my sins, my body wasted away and I groaned all day long. Day and night your hand lay heavily on me. My strength drained in the summer heat. I confessed my sins to you, and I did not cover up my guilt. I decided to confess them to you, O Jehovah. Then you forgave all my sins.

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

I considered my ways and turned my feet to your laws.

We turned away from you. But soon we wanted to return. After you had punished us we hung our heads in grief. We were ashamed and disgraced because we sinned when we were young.'

Let us search and put our ways to the test. Let us turn again to Jehovah.

When a wicked person turns away from the wicked things that he has done and does what is fair and right, he will live. He realized what he was doing and turned away from all the rebellious things that he had done. He will certainly live. He will not die.

Jehovah of Hosts said: Consider your ways. You sow much and reap little. You eat but you do not have enough! You drink and yet you are not filled. You clothe yourselves but you are not warm. You earns wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it. Then Jehovah said: Consider your ways.

Finally it dawned on him, my father's hired workers have more than they can eat and I am about to starve! I will go to my father and say: 'Father I have sinned against God and against you. I am not fit to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired workers.'read more.
He went to his father. He was a long way from home when his father saw him. His heart filled with pity. He ran and threw his arms around his son and kissed him. Father, the son said: 'I have sinned against God and against you. I am not fit to be called your son.' The father called his servants. He said: 'Hurry and bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and shoes on his feet. Get the prize calf and kill it. Let us celebrate with a feast! My son was dead. Now he is alive. He was lost. Now he has been found. The feasting began.'

Whoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of [sinning against] (falsely representing) the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself before he eats of that bread, and drinks of that cup. For he that eats and drinks unworthily, eats and drinks damnation to himself, not discerning (not judging rightly) the Lord's body.read more.
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

Since you seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you but is mighty in you. Though he was impaled through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. We are weak through him also, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you. Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith. Prove your own selves. Do you not know this about yourselves that Jesus Christ is with you, unless you are disqualified?

Each of you must examine your own actions. Then you can be proud of your own accomplishments without comparing yourself to others.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us we have confidence toward God.

You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye. Then you can see to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

Let a man examine himself before he eats of that bread, and drinks of that cup.

Examine yourselves, whether you are in the faith. Prove your own selves. Do you not know this about yourselves that Jesus Christ is with you, unless you are disqualified?