SELF-EXAMINATION

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How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. (Job 13:2323How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. (Job 13:23))
Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. (Psalm 4:44Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. (Psalm 4:4))
Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. (Psalm 19:1212Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults. (Psalm 19:12))
Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. (Psalm 26:22Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart. (Psalm 26:2))
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. (Psalm 77:66I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. (Psalm 77:6))
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. (Psalm 119:5959I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. (Psalm 119:59))
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalm 139:23-2423Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalm 139:23‑24))
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:99The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9))
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. (Haggai 1:77Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. (Haggai 1:7))
And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I? (Matthew 26:2222And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I? (Matthew 26:22))
And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I? (Mark 14:1919And they began to be sorrowful, and to say unto him one by one, Is it I? and another said, Is it I? (Mark 14:19))
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. (1 Corinthians 11:27-2827Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. 28But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. (1 Corinthians 11:27‑28))
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? (2 Corinthians 13:55Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? (2 Corinthians 13:5))
For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden. (Galatians 6:3-53For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 4But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. 5For every man shall bear his own burden. (Galatians 6:3‑5))
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