What Does the Bible Say About Self-actualization?

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

John 15:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

2 Corinthians 10:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.

John 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Matthew 16:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Jude 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

1 John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Philippians 2:5-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Romans 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Acts 16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

John 14:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 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.

Luke 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” ...

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Exodus 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

Genesis 18:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground, ...

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Matthew 1:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).

32 Bible Verses about Self-actualization

Philippians 2:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

John 15:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 10:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 16:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jude 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 2:5-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 18:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 1:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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32 Bible Verses about Self-actualization

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Philippians 2:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

John 15:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 10:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

John 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 16:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Jude 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 John 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:23-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 2:5-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 16:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 13:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 14:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 10:25-37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 22:37-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 7:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 3:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 18:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 1:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote