Being Prideful

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. — read the full passage →

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but the proud, he knows from afar.

Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.

As it was in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. — read the full passage →

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. — read the full passage →

The Jews therefore said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple! Will you raise it up in three days?”

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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 is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, — read the full passage →

For by him all things were created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much. — read the full passage →

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

He asked him, “What is your name?” He said to him, “My name is Legion, for we are many.”

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. — read the full passage →

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

They said to you that “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.”

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

That in the good ground, these are such as in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produces fruit with patience.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehennaas yourselves.

Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” — read the full passage →

This is what Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them. — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.