Bible Verses About Self Examination
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for self examination, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,028 votes, led by 2 Corinthians 13:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Self Examination
2 Corinthians 13:5362 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?
Lamentations 3:40158 votes
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
James 1:23-25158 votes
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
1 Corinthians 11:28-32129 votes
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
Galatians 6:3-5129 votes
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
Psalms 139:1-2493 votes
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Psalms 139:23-2481 votes
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Psalms 119:5974 votes
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
Romans 12:368 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.
1 John 1:966 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Psalms 51:1-1952 votes
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Acts 17:3050 votes
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
2 Corinthians 12:938 votes
And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Psalms 34:1-2237 votes
I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Philippians 4:6-735 votes
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
1 Corinthians 11:3134 votes
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
Galatians 5:22-2333 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Matthew 7:3-532 votes
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Galatians 6:431 votes
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
1 Peter 1:1331 votes
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
1 Corinthians 6:19-2024 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Psalms 26:223 votes
Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
Jeremiah 17:921 votes
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
1 Corinthians 11:2819 votes
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
Deuteronomy 4:917 votes
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;
What does the Bible say about self examination?
Readers most often cite 2 Corinthians 13:5 on the subject of self examination. Across 2,028 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Lamentations 3:40, James 1:23-25, 1 Corinthians 11:28-32. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.