Bible Verses about “ego”

“doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;”

“each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.”

“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 this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,”

“You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.”

“Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."”

“Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.”

“that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,”

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

“And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.”

“but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.”

“who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,”

“Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;”

“make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;”

“Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

“If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,”

“Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.”

“I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.”

“Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.”

“A man's pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.”

“Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one--God.”

“The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.”

“As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"”

“Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me."”

“"If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.”

“but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.”

“Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.”

“At the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Yahweh, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.”

“Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem:”

“and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh his God; he didn't humble himself before Jeremiah the prophet [speaking] from the mouth of Yahweh.”

“He also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart against turning to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”

“Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Yahweh which he had made holy in Jerusalem.”

“Yahweh, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:”

“Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed: he gave them all into his hand.”

“All the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.”