True self-worth comes from understanding your place in God’s plan. When you recognize your value in His eyes, you find purpose beyond yourself. Humility allows you to serve others with strength and grace. By focusing on God’s will, you discover the power of selflessness.
Below is our full list of bible verses on self-importance (King James Version – KJV) provided in ranked order.
Most Popular Bible Verses About Self-Importance
Romans 12:3
“3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”
John 3:16
“16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Related Themes: Trespassing Life Love Money Omnipotence
Ephesians 2:8-9
“8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.”
Related Themes: Faith Grace Life Pride Repentance
Proverbs 16:18
“18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
Related Themes: Pride Humility Reputation Business
Isaiah 14:12-15
“12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.”
Related Themes: Pride Bitterness Reaping Satan
Acts 17:10-11
“10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”
Related Themes: Trespassing Criticism Omnipotence Frustration Lust
1 Peter 5:8
“8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:”
Related Themes: Lust Business Addiction Satan Self-Control
Psalm 1:1-6
“1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
Related Themes: Reaping Frustration Reaping What You Sow Bullying Gossip
2 Timothy 3:2
“2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,”
Related Themes: Selfishness Respecting Your Parents Pride Money Self Seeking
1 John 4:16
“16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”
2 Corinthians 10:12
“12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.”
Related Themes: Pride Respect Boasting Self Respect Morality
John 8:44
“44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”
Related Themes: Telling The Truth Lust Pride Reaping Lying
2 Corinthians 4:4
“4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
Related Themes: Omnipotence Reaping Sovereignty Satan Omnipresence
Proverbs 11:2
“2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.”
John 12:31
“31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.”
Related Themes: Satan
1 Peter 5:5
“5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.”
Related Themes: Humility Pride Humility Respecting Your Parents Children
Matthew 22:39
“39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
Related Themes: Strangers Gold Abomination Reputation Trespassing
Genesis 3:5
“5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
1 Peter 3:19-20
“19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”
Related Themes: Hell
John 14:6
“6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
Related Themes: Telling The Truth Life Truth Homelessness Reputation
Matthew 25:41
“41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:”
Related Themes: Hell Afterlife Homelessness Suffering Satan
