9 Bible Verses about Examining Yourself
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But coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father have bread enough and to spare, and I am perishing with hunger? I will rise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no longer worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hired servants.read more.
And he rose and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion; and he ran and fell on his neck and kissed him. And his son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no longer worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, bring out the best robe, and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: and bring hither the fatted calf and kill it, and let us eat and be merry: for this my son was dead, and is alive again, and was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.
So that whosoever eateth this bread, or drinketh of the cup of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of this bread and drink of this cup: for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgement against himself, not distinguishing the Lord's body.read more.
For this many among you are weak and infirm, and several are fallen asleep. If then we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged:
since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, who is not weak toward you, but is powerful among you. For if He was crucified as from weakness, yet He now liveth by the power of God: for we also are weak in Him, but shall live with Him by the power of God manifested to you. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove yourselves: do ye not know yourselves to be such that Jesus Christ is in you? unless ye are reprovable.
But let every one try his own work, and then he will have matter of glorying in himself alone, and not in another.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness:
For, if our heart condemn us, God is still greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence towards God:
Thou hypocrite, first get the beam out of thine own eye; and then thou wilt see how to take the splinter out of thy brother's eye.
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of this bread and drink of this cup:
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove yourselves: do ye not know yourselves to be such that Jesus Christ is in you? unless ye are reprovable.