Self-Examination: General Scriptures Concerning
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Job 13:23
How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.
Psalm 4:4
Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
Psalm 19:12
Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
Psalm 26:2
Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
Psalm 77:6
At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
Psalm 119:59
I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
Psalm 139:23, 24
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. / See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Lamentations 3:40
Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
Haggai 1:7
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
Matthew 26:22
They were deeply grieved and began to ask Him one after another, “Surely not I, Lord?”
Mark 14:19
They began to be grieved and to ask Him one after another, “Surely not I?”
1 Corinthians 11:27, 28, 31
Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. / Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. / Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.
2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?
Galatians 6:3–5
If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. / Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else. / For each one should carry his own load.