70 Bible Verses About Self-Examination

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.

And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;

If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.

Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.

Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours.

I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

But ye should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? how long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good.

Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.

Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil: so do stripes the inward parts of the belly.

How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.

Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:

Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.

Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.

And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,