18 Bible Verses about I Am Unimportant

But Moses said: Who am I to go to Pharaoh and lead your people out of Egypt?

David went into the tent he set up for the ark. Then he sat there and prayed: Jehovah All-Powerful, my family and I do not deserve what you have already done for us.

How could I ever be that powerful? Hazael asked. I am nobody, only a dog. Elisha replied: Jehovah has revealed to me that you will be king of Syria.

In the morning you will see the glory of Jehovah's presence. He hears your complaints against him. But what are we that you complain against us?

Moses said: This will happen when Jehovah gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread to eat in the morning. Jehovah hears your complaints against him. And what are we? Your complaints are not against us but against Jehovah.

This is what he said: Who does this David think he is? That son of Jesse is just one more slave on the run from his master. There are too many of them now days.

David answered: Who am I? What is my family that I should be the king's son-in-law?

Mephibosheth bowed again and said: I am no better than a dead dog! Why should you be so good to me?

Why should the king of Israel be out chasing me, anyway? I am as worthless as a dead dog or a flea.

Then Abraham answered and said: Indeed now, I who am only dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to Jehovah:

Saul replied: I am a man from the tribe of Benjamin. It is the smallest tribe of Israel. My family is the most insignificant of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin. Why are you saying such things to me?

I am so insignificant. How can I answer you? I will put my hand over my mouth.

If I have the gift of prophesy, and know all secrets and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

I have become a fool in boasting. You have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended about you: for in nothing am I inferior to the most prominent apostles, though I am nothing.

Samuel said to Saul: You are little in your own eyes. Even though you are a leader of all of the tribes of Israel that Jehovah anointed king over Israel.

I have a mind as well as you! I am not inferior to you! Who does not know all these things?

I know what you know. I am not inferior to you!