Self Examination

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.

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

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror; — read the full passage →

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

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

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

I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

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

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.

Have mercy on me, God, according to your loving kindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. — read the full passage →

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

For if we discerned ourselves, we wouldn’t be judged.

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.

I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth. — read the full passage →

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

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

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? — read the full passage →

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

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

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, — read the full passage →

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

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

How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent. — read the full passage →

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

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

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

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

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

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.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

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

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 →

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.

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

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?

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors. — 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 →

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

The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them. — read the full passage →

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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

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

throwing 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 examine 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 those who are wise. 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 we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

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

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

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.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

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

Therefore whoever eats this bread or drinks the Lord’s cup in a way unworthy of the Lord will be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord. — read the full passage →

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

Or don’t you know, brothers (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives? — read the full passage →

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

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 →

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

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

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

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

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

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

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

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

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

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.” — 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 it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

But in giving you this command, I don’t praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse. — read the full passage →

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

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.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after 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 those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, “It isn’t me, is it, Lord?”

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; — read the full passage →

For concerning 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 has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

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 →

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. — read the full passage →

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? — read the full passage →

They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, “Surely not I?” And another said, “Surely not I?”

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. — read the full passage →

What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →