43 Bible Verses about Inferiority

Then he replied unto him, Oh my Lord, with what shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men and despised of the people.

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

And Saul's slaves spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king's son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?

Hear, O our God; for we are despised; and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of their captivity.

For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it not be done. Now, therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. For my life is spent with grief and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

But I am poor and destitute; make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

O let not the oppressed return ashamed; the poor and destitute shall praise thy name.

Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me, for I am poor and needy.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.

DALETH. My soul cleaves unto the dust; quicken me according to thy word.

The highways shall be broken down; the travellers shall cease; he has broken the covenant; he has despised the cities; he does not regard man.

Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? Is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? Why are they cast out, he and his generation, and are cast into a land which they know not?

Caph All her people sought their bread with sadness; they have given all their precious things for food to maintain life; see, O LORD, and consider, for I am become vile.

Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

Then I said, Woe is me! for I am dead because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of the hosts.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.

When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down on his knees before Jesus, saying, Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.

Then David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also has taken away thy sin; thou shalt not die.

Therefore, I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes.

O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presses me sore. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.read more.
For my iniquities are gone over my head; as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble and sore broken; I roar by reason of the disquietness of my heart. Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hid from thee. My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me. My friends and my companions stand aloof from my sore, and my kinsmen stand afar off. Those that seek after my life lay snares for me, and those that seek my hurt speak calamities and imagine deceits all the day long. But I, as a deaf man, that heard not, and as a dumb man that did not open his mouth. Thus I was as a man that does not hear, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. For thee, O LORD, do I wait; thou wilt respond, O Lord my God. For I said, Let them not rejoice over me; let them not magnify themselves against me when my foot slips. For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. Therefore I will declare my iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin. For my enemies are alive, and they are strong, and those that hate me wrongfully are multiplied; rendering evil for good they are against me because I follow that which is good. Forsake me not, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me. Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

For I acknowledge my rebellion; and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, against thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou be declared just in thy word and pure in thy judgment. Behold, the pain of my iniquity has caused me to writhe; my mother conceived me so that sin might be removed from me.

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I AM the first and the last,

Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

But now the LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, as a hireling counts the years, the glory of Moab shall be cast down, with all her great multitude; and the remnant shall be few, small and feeble.

For, behold, I have placed thee as small among the Gentiles and despised among men.

In comparison with the other kingdoms it shall be humble; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them that they shall no longer rule among the Gentiles.

But I have a heart as well as you; I am not inferior to you; and who shall not be able to say as much again?

Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the faithful in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

As you know it, I know it; I am not inferior unto you.

The disciple is not above his master, but any one that is as the master shall be perfect.

The disciple is not above his master, nor the slave above his lord.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The slave is not greater than his lord; neither is the apostle greater than he that sent him.

Remember the word that I said unto you, The slave is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep yours also.

For I am the least of the apostles, for I am not worthy to be called an apostle because I persecuted the congregation of God.

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of the Christ

and said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receives me, and whosoever shall receive me receives him that sent me; for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.

Verily I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there has not risen a greater than John the Baptist; notwithstanding, he that is least in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he.

For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist, but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

Whosoever therefore shall undo one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of the heavens; but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of the heavens.

This is a faithful saying and worthy of acceptation by all, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am first. But for this cause I was received unto mercy that in me first, Jesus Christ might show forth all clemency, for an example to those who should hereafter believe in him for eternal life.

And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the land.