33 Bible Verses about Self Respect

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

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

So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

honor your father and mother, and, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"

For by the grace given to me I say to every one 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 which God has assigned him.

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

though I myself have reasons for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more:

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If any one destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and that temple you are.

"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be mastered by anything. "Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food"but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. By his power God raised the Lord, and he will also raise us up.read more.
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who joins himself to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, "The two shall become one flesh." But he who unites himself with the Lord is one spirit with him. Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will live in them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling of God in the Spirit.

For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving;

But the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position; and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we treat with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, while our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving the greater honor to the parts that lacked it,read more.
so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

For our boast is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with holiness and godly sincerity, not in worldly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and still more toward you.

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of the One who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

But let each one test his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in his neighbor.

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was rescued from the lion's mouth.

that each one of you know how to take his own spouse for himself in holiness and honor,

The older men are to be temperate, serious, sensible, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

though I myself have reasons for confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he has reasons to put confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.read more.
But whatever was gain to me, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.

And when he had come out of the boat, there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who lived among the tombs; and no one could bind him any more, not even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains. But the chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he broke in pieces; and no one had the strength to subdue him.read more.
Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out, and cutting himself with stones.

When he stepped out on land, there met him a man from the city who had demons. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he lived not in a house but in the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, and said with a loud voice, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me!" For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For many times it had seized him, and he was kept under guard, bound with chains and shackles; and he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the wilderness.

And there was a woman who had endured a flow of blood for twelve years, and she had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she owned, and was no better but rather grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment.read more.
For she said, "If I touch even his clothes, I shall be made well."

And behold, a woman who had suffered from a hemorrhage for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment. For she said to herself, "If I only touch his garment, I shall be made well." Jesus turned, and when he saw her he said, "Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that moment.

And a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years and could not be healed by anyone, came up behind him, and touched the fringe of his garment; and immediately her flow of blood stopped. And Jesus said, "Who touched me?" When all denied it, Peter said, "Master, the multitudes surround you and press upon you!"read more.
But Jesus said, "Someone touched me; for I know that power has gone out from me." When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed. And he said to her, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace."

Not many days after, the younger son gathered together all he had and took his journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in loose living. And when he had spent everything, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in want. So he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine.read more.
And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him anything.

As he entered a village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance. And they lifted up their voices and said, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!"

Brethren, even if anyone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted.

Do not rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, in all purity.

And have mercy on some, who doubt;