Love Acceptance of Self

1 Corinthians 13:4–7 NKJV

4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

God isn’t going to tell you to do something he is not willing to do towards you.

Loving ourselves is connected to our self worth.

Worth signifies the value, merit, or significance of a person or thing.

Self -worth is the belief that your life has value and significance.

Worthis a translation of the Greek word axios, which means “of weight and worth.” In biblical times, gold and other precious metals were placed on a balancing scale where their worth was determined by their weight, leading to the expression …

Biblical Counseling Keys on Self-Worth A. What Is Self-Worth?

“… worth their weight in gold.…”

(Lamentations 4:2)

We know the value in something by how much someone is willing to pay for it.

Biblical Counseling Keys on Self-Worth Determining Self-Worth

At an auction, the worth of an item is determined clearly and simply by one thing … the highest price paid. Each item goes to the highest bidder. You were bought from the auction block of sin over 2,000 years ago when the heavenly Father paid the highest price possible—the life of His Son, Jesus Christ. By that one act, your worth was forever established by God.

Jesus Christ paid the ultimate price for you—willingly dying on the cross—paying the penalty for your sins. He loves you that much!

Your true worth is not based on anything you have done or will do, but on what Jesus has already done. Without a doubt, He established your worth.… You were worth His life.… You were worth dying for.

“This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1 John 4:9–10).