42 Bible Verses about Self Esteem

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly.Never be wise in your own sight.

So we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?"

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.

And he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Put no trust in a neighbor; have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms;

in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.

though I myself have reason for confidence in the flesh also. If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more:

Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that was not called by my name.

For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.

The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh--

and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,

knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.

And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.