Essential Bible Verses for Healing Shame

Shame has different elements, from feeling dirty or exposed, abandoned, and disowned, to a loss of confidence about being accepted or valued, to the fear of rejection and being alone. The Bible speaks to these: 

1. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief. We hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we assigned him no value. (Isaiah 53:3)
2. God opposes the proud, and gives grace to the humble. (I Peter 5:5)
3. There is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who had no need to repent. (Luke 15:7)
4. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. (Psalm 51:10)
5. You are washed, you are made holy, you are made innocent in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. (I Corinthians 6:11)
6. And white robes were given to every one of them; and it was said to them, that they should rest yet for a little season. (Revelation 6:11)
7. You shall no longer be called Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be called Desolate. (Isaiah 62:4)
8. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the children of God. (John 1:12)
9. He calls his own sheep by name. (John 10:3)
10. That you may be blameless and faultless, the children of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom you shine as lights in the world. (Philippians 2:15)
11. To him who overcomes, I will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no one knows except the one who receives it. (Revelation 2:15)
12. The home of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. (Revelation 21:3)