Being Meek

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but so to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him: — read the full passage →

And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accuseth them before our God day and night.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

but I say unto you, Love your enemies, and pray for them that persecute you;

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, so also do ye:

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer: behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men that were upon the face of the earth.

And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come forth, my people, out of her, that ye have no fellowship with her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues:

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.

For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps: — read the full passage →

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is become guilty of all.

and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds;

Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work, — read the full passage →

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

and madest them to be unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon the earth.

He that overcometh, I will give to him to sit down with me in my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne.

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

according as each hath received a gift, ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

O Timothy, guard that which is committed unto thee, turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more. — read the full passage →

For our citizenship is in heaven; whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?

But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.

Again therefore Jesus spake unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in the darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Let my tongue sing of thy word; For all thy commandments are righteousness.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. — read the full passage →

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: over these the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that no wind should blow on the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree. — read the full passage →

I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

For the time is come for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?

Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are of the Dispersion, greeting. — read the full passage →

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear.

And according to the law, I may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered; — read the full passage →

Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.

And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.

Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work, — read the full passage →

To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

For which cause I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee through the laying on of my hands. — read the full passage →

Let as many as are servants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine be not blasphemed. — read the full passage →

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; — read the full passage →

And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

to whom God was pleased to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

And my God shall supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.

and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. — read the full passage →

And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;