42 Bible Verses about Self Esteem

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.

So we can say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"

For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith.

Now we have such confidence in God through Christ.

But Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in men's eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God's sight.

The second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'

When all our enemies heard and all the nations who were around us saw this, they were greatly disheartened. They knew that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

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

But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God's grace.

who though he existed in the form of God did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,

Do not rely on a friend; do not trust a companion! Don't even share secrets with the one who lies in your arms!

in whom we have boldness and confident access to God because of Christ's faithfulness.

-- though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:

So do not throw away your confidence, because it has great reward.

for the Lord will be the source of your confidence, and he will guard your foot from being caught in a trap.

Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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

The Lord is near the brokenhearted; he delivers those who are discouraged.

"I made myself available to those who did not ask for me; I appeared to those who did not look for me. I said, 'Here I am! Here I am!' to a nation that did not invoke my name.

Patiently wait for God alone, my soul! For he is the one who gives me confidence.

The second is: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."

and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials

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

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

The one who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but the one who walks in wisdom will escape.

But if you fulfill the royal law as expressed in this scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity,

Above all, you do well if you recognize this: No prophecy of scripture ever comes about by the prophet's own imagination,

So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

but the inner person of the heart, the lasting beauty of a gentle and tranquil spirit, which is precious in God's sight.

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,

My hand made them; that is how they came to be," says the Lord. I show special favor to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say.

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

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness -- the one who does not love his fellow Christian -- is not of God.

Fairness will produce peace and result in lasting security.

And to love him with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices."

Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.