What Does the Bible Say About Self Accomplishment?

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

Romans 12:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Matthew 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Matthew 22:37-38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 15:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him. And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” So he told them this parable: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. ...

Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.

Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Leviticus 26:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God. You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord. “If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely. ...

Genesis 4:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord.” And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground. In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. ...

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

Genesis 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 1 helpful vote

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: ...

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...

James 4:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Romans 15:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

34 Bible Verses about Self Accomplishment

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 12:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37-38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 15:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 26:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 4:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 3:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 4:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 15:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Self Accomplishment

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Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Proverbs 11:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 12:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Jeremiah 17:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Matthew 22:39 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Joshua 1:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37-38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 15:1-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 4:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 18:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 26:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 4:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 3:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 John 2:1-29 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

James 4:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 15:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote