Bible Verses about “self pity”
The Bible contains 50 verses about self pity across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
“¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”
“Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;”
“Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;”
“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].”
“Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”
“[Let your] conversation [be] without covetousness; [and be] content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”
“¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:”
“‹Come unto me, all› [ye] ‹that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.›”
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
“Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience.”
“¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”
“But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.”
“Blessed [is] the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
“For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.”
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
“If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion [is] vain.”
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.”
“‹Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.›”
“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”
“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.”
“Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”
“And not only [so], but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;”
“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”
“For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:”
“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
“For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”
“A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.”
“For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.”
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
“¶ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:”
“Do not err, my beloved brethren.”
“Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.”
“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.”
“But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.”
“Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:”
“For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.”
“¶ A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
“‹For my yoke› [is] ‹easy, and my burden is light.›”
“¶ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.”
“Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.”
“¶ ‹Blessed› [are] ‹the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.›”
“Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with thy] free spirit.”
“Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.”
“How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?”