Bible verses about "self" | CLV

²⁸ You shall not put a laceration in your flesh for a deceased soul; you shall not put a tattoo writing on yourself:I, Yahweh, am your Elohim.

¹⁹ Consequently, then, no longer are you guests and sojourners, but are fellow-citizens of the saints and belong to God's family, ²⁰ being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, the capstone of the corner being Christ Jesus Himself, ²¹ in Whom the entire building, being connected together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord:" ²² in Whom you, also, are being built together for God's dwelling place, in spirit."

¹⁶ Are you not aware that you are a temple of God and the spirit of God is making its home in you? ¹⁷ If anyone is corrupting the temple of God, God will be corrupting him, for the temple of God is holy, which you are."

¹ I am entreating you, then, brethren, by the pities of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice, living, holy, well pleasing to God, your logical divine service,

⁷ for God gives us, not a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of sanity."

³¹ And, according as you are wanting that men may be doing to you, you also be doing to them likewise."

³⁰ He must be growing, yet mine it is to be inferior."

³ For I am saying, through the grace which is given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to be overweening, beyond what your disposition must be, but to be of a sane disposition, as God parts to each the measure of faith."