Bible Verses About Comparing Ourselves to Others
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for comparing ourselves to others, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,477 votes, led by 2 Corinthians 10:12. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Comparing Ourselves to Others
2 Corinthians 10:12754 votes
For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
Galatians 1:10648 votes
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Galatians 6:4394 votes
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Philippians 2:3263 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Romans 12:2237 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Matthew 7:2165 votes
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
2 Corinthians 13:5124 votes
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
2 Timothy 2:15118 votes
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Matthew 7:1115 votes
Judge not, that ye be not judged.
1 Corinthians 4:7110 votes
For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
Romans 12:3108 votes
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
Exodus 20:1797 votes
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
Galatians 2:2089 votes
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Acts 20:3572 votes
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Jude 1:1967 votes
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
Matthew 20:1-1665 votes
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
Psalms 73:2-662 votes
But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
Luke 18:9-1462 votes
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
Psalms 118:659 votes
The Lord is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?
John 16:3355 votes
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
James 1:1748 votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
John 21:2246 votes
Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.
Galatians 6:3-546 votes
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Luke 22:24-2744 votes
And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.
Galatians 6:4-540 votes
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
What does the Bible say about comparing ourselves to others?
Readers most often cite 2 Corinthians 10:12 on the subject of comparing ourselves to others. Across 4,477 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Galatians 1:10, Galatians 6:4, Philippians 2:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.