What Does the Bible Say About Insignificance?

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Romans 5:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

John 1:1-51 ESV / 8 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

Colossians 3:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

1 John 5:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life.

1 Corinthians 1:28-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

Psalm 8:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?

1 John 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, and of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this we will do if God permits. For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, ...

Romans 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

1 Corinthians 15:51-53 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Luke 24:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

21 Bible Verses about Insignificance

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

John 1:1-51 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Colossians 3:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 John 5:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 1:28-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 8:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 3:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:51-53 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 24:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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21 Bible Verses about Insignificance

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Psalm 119:105 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 1:26 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

John 1:1-51 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Colossians 3:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 John 5:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 1:28-31 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Psalm 8:3-4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 John 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 3:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 6:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 15:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:51-53 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 24:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote