From Nave’s Topical Bible
Self-examination
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 18Passages listed
- 10Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerningJob 13:23Psalms 4:4Psalms 19:12Psalms 26:2Psalms 77:6Psalms 119:59Psalms 139:23Psalms 139:24Jeremiah 17:9Lamentations 3:40Haggai 1:7Matthew 26:22Mark 14:191 Corinthians 11:271 Corinthians 11:281 Corinthians 11:312 Corinthians 13:5Galatians 6:3–5
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- See Sin, Confession of
The passages, in Bible order (18)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Job 13:23
How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.
- Psalms 4:4
Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
Commentary on Psalms 4:41 voice
It is said that the greatest of the philosophers granted immunity from punishment to those crimes that had been committed through anger, but the divine Scripture says better: "Be angry, and sin not." It preferred rather to cut off sin than to excuse it. It is better to find praise for mercy in an occasion for indignation than to be incited by wrath toward vengeance.
Ambrose of Milan· ON THE DEATH OF THEODOSIUS 14Patristic
- Psalms 19:12
Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
Commentary on Psalms 19:121 voice
It is not my will to conceive sin; I do not want to entertain bad thoughts, and yet I do; I do not want to entertain evil, and, like a captive against my will, I am drawn into evil reflections. Because it is not in my power either to think or not to think evil, that is why I declare, "Surely they are wanton sins that come into my heart," but since I cannot seem to avoid them, I plead, "Cleanse me from my unknown faults."
Jerome· HOMILY ON PSALM 114[116A]Patristic
- Psalms 26:2
Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
Commentary on Psalms 26:21 voice
If need be, we will not only partake of the blessings of life but bear its appointed sorrows as a trial to our souls. For in this way is divine Scripture accustomed to speak of human afflictions, by which, as gold is tried in the fire, so the human spirit is tried and is found to be worthy either of condemnation or of praise.… We are therefore prepared and are ready to say, "Try me, O Lord, and prove me; purge my reins and my heart."
Origen of Alexandria· AGAINST CELSUS 8:56Patristic
- Psalms 77:6
At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
Commentary on Psalms 77:61 voice
I meditated by night with my heart, and I dug over my spirit. I was not thinking of my anger, I was not thinking of my enemy; but my whole thought was of God. The night, which is wont to be either for rest or for lust, was for me a thinking upon the virtues. I meditated with my heart, and I dug over my spirit: that is, I dug like a field, that there I might cast the seed of the Lord's teachings.
Jerome· Homily 10, on Psalm 76Patristic
- Psalms 119:59
I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
Commentary on Psalms 119:591 voice
I thought on my ways,.... What they were, whether right or wrong; whither they led, what would be the consequences of walking in them: the Septuagint and Arabic versions read, "thy ways"; no doubt the psalmist thought of both; of his own ways, in which he had walked; and of God's ways, which he directed him to walk in: and, considering the superior pleasure and profit of the latter, he preferred them to the former. The Targum is, "I thought to mend my ways", or "make them good".
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
Commentary on Psalms 139:231 voice
They used to say about Poemen that when he was ready to go out to the meeting for prayer, he first sat by himself for an hour in self-examination, and then went.
Desert Fathers· The Desert Fathers, Sayings of the Early Christian MonksPatristic
- Psalms 139:24
See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the way everlasting.
Commentary on Psalms 139:242 voices
They used to say about Poemen that when he was ready to go out to the meeting for prayer, he first sat by himself for an hour in self-examination, and then went.
Desert Fathers· The Desert Fathers, Sayings of the Early Christian MonksPatristic
And see if there be any wicked way in me,.... Not that David thought himself free from wickedness, or that there was none to be found in his heart and life; and therefore said this in a boasting way, he knew otherwise; see Psa 19:12; but he is desirous it might be thoroughly looked into and seen whether there was any such wicked way in him he was charged with; as that he had a design upon the life of Saul, and to seize his throne and kingdom, which never entered into his mind, 1Sa 24:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
- Lamentations 3:40
Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
- Haggai 1:7
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Matthew 26:22
They were deeply grieved and began to ask Him one after another, “Surely not I, Lord?”
Commentary on Matthew 26:222 voices
And they were exceeding sorrowful,.... Partly that Christ should be betrayed at all, into the hands of his enemies, by whom they knew he would be ill used; and partly, that so vile an action should be done, by one from among themselves; and greatly, because they knew not, nor could not conceive, who of them could be guilty of such an horrid sin: and began everyone of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I? excepting Judas, who afterwards spoke for himself.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
(Verse 22.) And greatly saddened, they began to each say: Am I the one, Lord? And certainly the eleven apostles knew that they had not thought anything like that against the Lord: but they believed more in their teacher than in themselves, fearing their own weakness, they sadly asked about the sin whose consciousness they did not have.
Jerome· Commentary on MatthewPatristic
- Mark 14:19
They began to be grieved and to ask Him one after another, “Surely not I?”
Commentary on Mark 14:191 voice
If the eleven apostles were of good conscience, having not in any way betrayed their teacher, why were they grieved, as though it might have been that he was speaking of one of them? I think that each of them knew from Jesus' teaching that human freedom is infinitely changeable and may easily be turned toward evil. It may happen, in the struggle against principalities and powers and rulers of this world of darkness, that one may fall quite unexpectedly into evil, either being deceived or overcome by demonic powers.
Origen of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 50Patristic
- 1 Corinthians 11:27
Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 11:271 voice
Moreover, beloved brethren, a new kind of devastation has appeared; and, as if the storm of persecution had raged too little, there has been added to the heap, under the title of mercy, a deceiving mischief and a fair-seeming calamity. Contrary to the vigour of the Gospel, contrary to the law of the Lord and God, by the temerity of some, communion is relaxed to heedless persons,-a vain and false peace, dangerous to those who grant it, and likely to avail nothing to those who receive it.
Cyprian· Treatise III. On the LapsedPatristic
- 1 Corinthians 11:28
Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 11:281 voice
Then when he says, Let a man examine himself, he applies a remedy against this peril. First, he suggests the remedy; secondly, he assigns a reason (v. 29); thirdly, he clarifies the reason with a sign (v. 30). First, therefore, he says: because one who …
Thomas Aquinas· Commentary on 1 CorinthiansPatristic
- 1 Corinthians 11:31
Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.
Commentary on 1 Corinthians 11:311 voice
For if we would judge ourselves,.... Examine, try, and prove ourselves as above directed, before we eat and drink; or condemn ourselves, by confessing, acknowledging, and mourning over sin, and by repentance for it; or separate ourselves from the company of profane sinners, come out from among them, and touch not their unclean things; or join with them in their unfruitful works of darkness: we should not be judged; by the Lord; he would not inflict these diseases, sicknesses, and death.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
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