33 Bible Verses about Self Respect

The second is like it: 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.'

And this is the second, 'You must love your neighbor as you do yourself.' No other command is greater than these."

Then you must practice dealing with others as you would like for them to deal with you, for this is the summing up of the law and the prophets.

You must practice honoring your father and mother. And you must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

Now through the unmerited favor God has shown me I would say to every one of you not to estimate himself above his real value, but to make a sober rating of himself, in accordance with the degree of faith which God has apportioned to him.

for no one ever hates his own physical person, but he feeds and fosters it, just as Christ does the church;

though I too might rely on these. If anyone thinks that he can rely on outward privileges, far more might I do so:

Are you not conscious that you are God's temple, and that the Spirit of God has His permanent home in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is sacred to Him, and you are that temple.

Everything is permissible for me, but not everything is good for me. Everything is permissible for me, but I will not become a slave to anything. Foods are intended for the stomach, and the stomach for foods, but God will finally put a stop to both of them. The body is not intended for sexual immorality but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve. And as God by His power raised the Lord to life, so He will raise us too.read more.
Do you not know that your bodies are parts of Christ Himself? Then may I take away parts of Christ and make them parts of a prostitute? Never! Never! Or, are you not aware that a man who has to do with a prostitute makes his body one with hers? For God says, "The two shall be physically one." But the man who is in union with the Lord is spiritually one with Him. Keep on running from sexual immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is one outside his body, but the man who commits the sexual sin is sinning against his own body. Or, are you not conscious that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is in you, whom you have as a gift from God? Furthermore, you are not your own, for you have been bought and actually paid for. So you must honor God with your bodies.

And what agreement can a temple of God make with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said: "I will live in them and walk in them, and I will be their God and they will be my people."

and you yourselves, in union with Him, in fellowship with one another, are being built up into a dwelling for God through the Spirit.

For everything in God's creation is good, and nothing is to be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving;

Let the poor brother of lowly station rejoice in his exalted station as a Christian, and the rich brother rejoice in his being on a level with the poor, because the rich will fade away like the flower of the grass.

No, on the contrary, even those parts of the body that seem to be most delicate are indispensable, and the parts of it we deem devoid of honor we dress with special honor, and our ill-shaped parts receive more careful attention, while our well-shaped parts do not want for anything. Yes, God has perfectly adjusted the body, giving great honor to its apparently inferior parts,read more.
so that there is no disharmony in the body, but all the parts have a common care for one another.

For my boast is this, to which my conscience testifies, that before the world, but especially before you, I have acted from pure motives and in sincerity before God, not depending on worldly wisdom but on God's unmerited favor.

Whoever utters merely his own ideas is seeking his own honor, but whoever seeks the honor of him who sent him is sincere, and there is no dishonesty in him.

Everyone should test his own work until it stands the test, and then he will have ground for boasting with reference to himself alone, and not with reference to someone else.

Pray for me, for I am sure that I have a clear conscience, and in everything I want to live a noble life.

But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that the message preached by me might have its full effect and all the heathen might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's jaws.

that each man among you should learn to take his own wife out of pure and honorable motives,

the older men to be temperate, serious, and sensible, healthy in faith, in love, and in steadfastness;

For if anybody thinks he is somebody when really he is nobody, he deceives himself.

though I too might rely on these. If anyone thinks that he can rely on outward privileges, far more might I do so: circumcised when I was a week old; a descendant of Israel; a member of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew, a son of Hebrews. Measured by the law, I was a Pharisee; by the standard set by zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and measured by the uprightness reached by keeping the law, I was faultless.read more.
But for Christ's sake I have counted all that was gain to me as loss.

As soon as He got out of the boat, a man under the power of a foul spirit and from the tombs met Him. This man lived among the tombs, and no one could any longer subdue him even with a chain, for he had often been fastened with fetters and chains but had snapped the chains and broken the fetters, and no one was strong enough to overpower him.read more.
All night and all day he kept screaming among the tombs and on the hills, and kept gashing himself with stones.

As soon as He stepped out upon the shore, there met Him a man from town, who was under the power of demons; and for a long time he had worn no clothes, and did not stay in a house but in tombs. When he saw Jesus, he screamed and flung himself down before Him, and said in a loud voice, "What do you want of me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!" For He was commanding the foul spirit to get out of the man. For on many occasions it had seized him, and repeatedly he had been fastened with chains and fetters under constant guard, and yet he would snap his bonds, and the demon would drive him into desert places.

Then a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, and had suffered much at the hands of many doctors, and had spent all she had, and yet was not a whit benefited but rather grew worse, heard the reports about Jesus. So she came up in the crowd behind Him and touched His coat,read more.
for she kept saying, "If I can only touch His clothes, I shall get well."

And a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years came up and touched the tassel on His coat. For she kept saying to herself, "If I can only touch His coat, I will get well." And Jesus, on turning and seeing her, said, "Cheer up, my daughter! Your faith has cured you." And from that moment the woman was well.

Then a woman who had had a hemorrhage for twelve years, who could not be cured by anybody, came up behind Him and touched the tassel on His coat, and the hemorrhage stopped at once. Then Jesus said, "Who was it that touched me?" But as all were denying that they had done so, Peter said, "Master, the crowds are jamming you and jostling you."read more.
Still Jesus said, "Somebody touched me, for I felt it when the power passed from me." When the woman saw that she had not escaped His notice, she came forward trembling, and falling down before Him she told in the presence of all the people why she had touched Him and how she had been cured at once. So He said to her, "My daughter, it is your faith that has cured you; go on in peace."

Not many days after that, the younger son got together all he had and went away to a distant country, and there he squandered all his property by living in dissipation. After he had spent it all, a severe famine struck that country, and he began to suffer want. So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, and he sent him to his fields to feed hogs.read more.
And often he craved to fill himself with the carob-pods which the hogs were eating, and nobody gave him a bite.

And as He was going into one village, ten lepers met Him, who got up at some distance from Him, and raised their voices and said, "Jesus, Master, do take pity on us!"

Brothers, if anybody is caught in the very act of doing wrong, you who are spiritual, in the spirit of gentleness, must set him right; each of you continuing to think of yourself, for you may be tempted too.

Never reprove an older man, but always appeal to him as a father. Treat younger men like brothers, older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, with perfect purity.

Some people, who continue to waver through doubts, you must pity