Self Examination

Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate.

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

For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: — read the full passage →

For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. — read the full passage →

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

O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and knownme. — read the full passage →

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

I thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

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

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 so to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:

But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged.

And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

I will bless Jehovah at all times: His praise shall continually be in my mouth. — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. — read the full passage →

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

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? — read the full passage →

Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.

Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; Try my heart and my mind.

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; — read the full passage →

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

But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children’s children;

Stand in awe, and sin not: Commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. [Selah

Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I come to thee, and will move thy candlestick out of its place, except thou repent. — read the full passage →

prove all things; hold fast that which is good;

For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. — read the full passage →

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

And Peter said unto them, Repent ye, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

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

not by works done in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; — read the full passage →

Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.

If then ye 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 →

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart; And my spirit maketh diligent search.

Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults. — read the full passage →

O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth, Who hast set thy glory upon the heavens! — read the full passage →

For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. — read the full passage →

And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; and when they have heard, straightway cometh Satan, and taketh away the word which hath been sown in them. — read the full passage →

Iron sharpeneth iron; So a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

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

but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; — read the full passage →

Beloved, now are we children of God, and it is not yet made manifest what we shall be. We know that, if he shall be manifested, we shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is.

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, — read the full passage →

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

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

doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

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

Wherefore whosoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. — read the full passage →

What then shall we say to these things? If Godisfor us, whoisagainst us?

Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth? — read the full passage →

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and for ever. Amen.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

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

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

So then, my beloved, even as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

and if Christ hath not been raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

Let a man so account of us, as of ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee. — read the full passage →

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith: — read the full passage →

if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.

But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse. — read the full passage →

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

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began to say unto him every one, Is it I, Lord?

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked: — read the full passage →

For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.

Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief:

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

And he spake also this parable unto certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and set all others at nought: — read the full passage →

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? — read the full passage →

They began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I?

And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted. — read the full passage →

What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →