43 Bible Verses about Inferiority

Gideon replied: But Jehovah, how can I rescue Israel? My clan is the weakest in the tribe of Manasseh. I am the least important member of my family.

Yet, I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned by humanity and despised by people.

And I came to you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

Saul's servants said these things to David. And David said: I am not rich or famous enough to marry Princess Michal.

Give ear, O our God, for we are ridiculed. Let their words of shame be turned back upon them, and let them be given up to plunder in a land where they are prisoners.

They hoped to put fear in us, saying: Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.

Be gracious to me, O Jehovah, because I am in distress. My eyes, my life, and my body waste away with grief. My life is spent from sorrow, my years from groaning. My strength staggers under the weight of my guilt, and my bones waste away.

But I am oppressed and needy. O God, come to me quickly. You are my help and my deliverer. O Jehovah do not delay!

Do not let the oppressed return ashamed. Let the poor and needy praise your name.

([Prayer by David]) Listen to me, O Jehovah. Answer me, for I am oppressed and needy.

I am oppressed and needy. I feel pain in my heart.

I cleave to the dust. Revive me according to your word (as you promised).

The highways are deserted, no travelers are on the roads. The treaty is broken and its witnesses are despised. No one is respected.

This Jehoiakin is like a rejected and broken pot that no one wants. Is that why he and his descendants will be thrown out and cast into another land they have never heard of?

Her people are sighing and looking for bread. They have given their desired things for something to eat to give them life. See, O Jehovah, and take note. She has become a thing of shame.

I caused you to be despised and low before all the people. You are contemptible and do not keep my ways. You show partiality when applying the law.

Woe to me! I cried. I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips (a sinner) and I live among a people of unclean (filthy) lips (speech) (language). My eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of Hosts.

Blessed (Greek: makarios: happy, blessed) are those conscious of their spiritual need, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

When Simon Peter saw this he fell down at Jesus' knees. He said: Depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

David said to Nathan: I have sinned against Jehovah. Nathan replied: Jehovah has taken away your sin. You will not die.

Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.

([Psalm of David]) O Jehovah, do not correct me or discipline me in your burning anger. Your arrows have struck me. Your hand has struck me hard. No healthy spot is left on my body because of your rage. There is no peace in my bones because of my sin.read more.
My guilt has overwhelmed me. Like a heavy load, it is more than I can bear. My wounds smell rotten. They fester because of my stupidity. I am bent over and bowed down very low. All day I walk around in sadness. My insides are filled with burning pain, and no healthy spot is left on my body. I am numb and completely devastated. I roar because my heart is filling with anguish. You know all my desires, O Jehovah. My groaning has not been hidden from you. My heart pounds. I have lost my strength. In my blindness the light of my eyes has left me. My loved ones and my friends keep their distance and my relatives stand far away because of my sickness. Those who seek my life lay traps for me. Those who are out to harm me talk about ruining me. All day long they think of ways to deceive me. But I am like some one deaf and speechless. I am like one who cannot hear and who can offer no arguments. I wait with hope for you, O Jehovah. You will answer, O Jehovah, my God. I said: Do not let them gloat over me. When my foot slips, do not let them promote themselves at my expense. I am ready to fall. I feel pain continually. I confess my guilt. My sin troubles me. My mortal enemies are growing stronger. Many hate me for no reason. They pay me back with evil instead of good, and they accuse me because I try to do what is good. Do not abandon me, O Jehovah. O my God, do not be so distant from me. Come quickly to help me, Jehovah my salvation.

I admit my transgressions. My sin is always in front of me. I have sinned against you, especially you. I have done what you consider evil in your sight. So you hand down justice when you speak, and you are blameless when you judge. Indeed, I was born in perversity (mischief) (evil). I was a sinner when my mother conceived me.

When I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet. He laid his right hand on me and said: Do not fear. I am the first and the last:

You say, I am rich and have become wealthy and have need of nothing." You do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

Now Jehovah says: Moab's honor will be despised within three years. I will count them like workers count the years left of their contracts. In spite of their great number, the survivors will be very few and powerless.

Edom, I will make you the smallest of nations and despised among humanity.

It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and it will never again lift itself up above the nations. I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations.

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

Let no man look down on your youth. Be an example to the believers in speech and conduct, in love, in faith and chasteness.

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

The disciple is not above his teacher. Every one will be like his teacher when he is fully trained.

A disciple is not greater than his teacher, nor a servant his master.

Truly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his master. Neither is one that is sent greater than he that sent him.

Remember the word I said to you. A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours also.

I am the least of the apostles and do not deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the people of God.

To me, the very least of all the holy ones, was given grace (loving divine influence) to preach to the people of the nations the untraceable riches of Christ.

Then he said to them: Whoever receives this little child in my name receives me. Whoever receives me receives him who sent me. He who is least among you will be the greatest!

I tell you, there is none, born of women, greater then John the Baptist. Yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

I say to you, of those who are born of women there is none greater than John. Yet he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

Whoever disobeys even the least of the commandments and teaches others to do the same, will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. On the other hand whoever obeys and teaches others to obey the Law will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Faithful is the saying, and worthy of acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am foremost. For this I obtained mercy, which in me as the foremost sinner Jesus Christ might show his long-suffering. This is for an example to those who should later believe in him for eternal life.

After you another inferior kingdom will arise and another third kingdom of brass, which will rule over all the earth.