Self Awareness

Pay attention to yourself, and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; — read the full passage →

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it? — read the full passage →

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

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

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

We love him, because he first loved us. — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your glory above the heavens! — read the full passage →

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.

You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.

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

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

and in him you are made full, who is the head of all principality and power;

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man’s judgment. Yes, I don’t judge my own self. — read the full passage →

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup. — read the full passage →

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;

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

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries. — read the full passage →

For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. — read the full passage →