42 Bible Verses about Self Esteem

Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.

So that with good courage we say, The Lord is my helper; I will not fear: What shall man do unto me?

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.

And such confidence have we through Christ to God-ward:

And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify yourselves in the sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

And it came to pass, when all our enemies heard thereof , that all the nations that were about us feared, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.

But now ye glory in your vauntings: all such glorying is evil.

But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped,

Trust ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a friend; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more:

Cast not away therefore your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward.

For Jehovah will be thy confidence, And will keep thy foot from being taken.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God;

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.

Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.

I am inquired of by them that asked not for me ; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

My soul, wait thou in silence for God only; For my expectation is from him.

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's.

for we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and glory in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh:

and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool; But whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

and those parts of the body, which we think to be less honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness;

knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For all these things hath my hand made, and'so all these things came to be, saith Jehovah: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my word.

And this is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us:

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence for ever.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: