SELF-ESTEEM, SELF-LOVE, SELF-ISH

SELF-ESTEEM, SELF-LOVE, SELF-ISH
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PSALM 39:4-7 NKJV
4    "Lord, make me to know my end, And what is the measure of my days, That I may know how frail I am.
5    Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah
6    Surely every man walks about like a shadow; Surely they busy themselves in vain; He heaps up riches, And does not know who will gather them.
7    "And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You.

PROVERBS 16:5 NKJV
     Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord; Though they join forces, none will go unpunished.

PROVERBS 16:18 NKJV
     Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

PROVERBS 25:27 NKJV
     It is not good to eat much honey; So to seek one's own glory is not glory.

PROVERBS 27:2 NKJV
     Let another man praise you and not your own mouth; A stranger and not your own lips.

MATTHEW 10:38-39 NKJV
38   "And he who does not take his own cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.
39   "He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

MATTHEW 16:24 NKJV
     Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

MATTHEW 20:25-28 NKJV
25   But Jesus called them to Himself and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them.
26   "Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.
27   "And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave--
28   "just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

MARK 8:34-35 NKJV
34   And when He had called the people to Him, with His disciples also, He said to them, "whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
35   "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel's will save it.

LUKE 9:23 NKJV
     Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

LUKE 14:26-33 NKJV
26   "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
27   "And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
28   "For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it--
29   "lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all who see it begin to mock him,
30   "saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.'
31   "Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
32   "Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace.
33   "So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.

LUKE 16:15 NKJV
     And He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

JOHN 12:25 NKJV
     "He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

ROMANS 2:29 NKJV
     but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.

ROMANS 12:1-3 NKJV
1    I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
2    And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
3    For I say, through the grace given me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.

ROMANS 12:10 NKJV
     Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another;

ROMANS 15:1-3 NKJV
1    We then who are strong ought to bear with the scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
2    Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to edification.
3    For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me."

1 CORINTHIANS 3:6-7 NKJV
6    I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.
7    So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

1 CORINTHIANS 4:5 NKJV
     Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts; and then each one's praise will come from God.

1 CORINTHIANS 10:24,33 NKJV
24   Let no one seek his own, but each one the other's well-being.
33   just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-5 NKJV
4    Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
5    does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

1 CORINTHIANS 15:9-10 NKJV
9    For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
10   But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

2 CORINTHIANS 3:5 NKJV
     Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

2 CORINTHIANS 5:15 NKJV
     and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

2 CORINTHIANS 10:12,17-18 NKJV
12   For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves. But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
17   But "He who glories, let him glory in the Lord."
18   For not he who commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

2 CORINTHIANS 12:11 NKJV
     I have become a fool in boasting; you have compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing was I behind the most eminent apostles, though I am nothing.

GALATIANS 6:1-4 NKJV
1    Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.
2    Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
3    For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
4    But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

PHILIPPIANS 2:3-8,13,21 NKJV
3    Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.
4    Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.
5    Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,
6    who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,
7    but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a servant, and coming in the likeness of men.
8    And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
13   for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.
21   For all seek their own, not the things which are of Christ Jesus.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-2 NKJV
1    But know this, that in the last days perilous time will come:
2    For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

JAMES 3:14,16 NKJV
14   But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
16   For where envy and selfseeking exist, confusion and every evil thing will be there.

REVELATIONS 12:11 NKJV
    "And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

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