What Does the Bible Say About Examine Ourselves?

2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

1 John 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 Corinthians 11:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged.

Psalm 139:23-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!

Psalm 19:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.

1 John 1:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

1 John 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 11:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

Psalm 26:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Prove me, O Lord, and try me; test my heart and my mind.

Revelation 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And one of the elders said to me, “Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”

1 John 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

James 2:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? ...

Hebrews 6:4-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

Ephesians 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible,

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. ...

2 Corinthians 13:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

This is the third time I am coming to you. Every charge must be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. I warned those who sinned before and all the others, and I warn them now while absent, as I did when present on my second visit, that if I come again I will not spare them— since you seek proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you. For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God. Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test! ...

1 Corinthians 11:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

1 Corinthians 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 8:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Romans 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

John 6:63 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

John 6:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

John 6:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

John 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. ...

Psalm 36:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For with you is the fountain of life; in your light do we see light.

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

37 Bible Verses about Examine Ourselves

2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 139:23-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 19:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 1:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 10:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 26:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 2:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:4-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 13:1-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Romans 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 6:63 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 6:53 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 6:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Genesis 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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37 Bible Verses about Examine Ourselves

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2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 139:23-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 19:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 1:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 10:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 26:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Revelation 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James 2:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:4-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Galatians 5:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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