Bible Verses About Your Worth in God's Eyes
Intrinsic worth based on being made in God's image and redeemed by Christ's blood — you are priceless to Him.
Your intrinsic worth is established by the fact that you were made in God's image and bought with the blood of Christ. You are priceless to the Creator of all things, and He delights in your existence. Let this truth silence the voices of inadequacy and fill you with a deep sense of peace.
Key Passages
"Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men."
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:"
"Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;"
"¶ And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
"When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;"
"What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?"
"For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour."
"Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:"
"I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well."
"Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father."
"But the very hairs of your head are all numbered."
"Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows."
"Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?"
"But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows."
"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."
"For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die."
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"
"For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s."
"According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:"
"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."
"Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;"
"And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour."
"But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:"
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