Being Selfish

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

But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. — read the full passage →

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. — read the full passage →

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself; — read the full passage →

Let each man do according as he hath purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear. — read the full passage →

What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? — read the full passage →

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, And not to covetousness.

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, And rageth against all sound wisdom.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers: — read the full passage →

He must increase, but I must decrease.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

Let no man seek his own, but each his neighbor’s good.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; — read the full passage →

And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

but the other proclaim Christ of faction, not sincerely, thinking to raise up affliction for me in my bonds.

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,

Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away. — read the full passage →

But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, Andwhichentered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him.

I sought Jehovah, and he answered me, And delivered me from all my fears.

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

So the last shall be first, and the first last.

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do. — read the full passage →

but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,

Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

Forit isaswhena man, going into another country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother’s keeper?

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.

I wrote somewhat unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, — read the full passage →

not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it: but whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. — read the full passage →

The merciful man doeth good to his own soul; But he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh. — read the full passage →

And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions, — read the full passage →

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.

And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, after what manner I was with you all the time, — read the full passage →

And when they had appointed for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life.

Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.

Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able. — read the full passage →

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; For he giveth of his bread to the poor.

Now we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess.

But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed, — read the full passage →

Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. — read the full passage →

The elders therefore among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, who am also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lordof glory, with respect of persons. — read the full passage →

For the bishop must be blameless, as God’s steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; — read the full passage →

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. — read the full passage →

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren: — read the full passage →

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect: but I press on, if so be that I may lay hold on that for which also I was laid hold on by Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

And youdid he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins, — read the full passage →

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Now all the publicans and sinners were drawing near unto him to hear him. — read the full passage →

And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, even as it was spoken unto them. — read the full passage →

And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another. — read the full passage →

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not; for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith Jehovah; but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.

Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: — read the full passage →

A man’s gift maketh room for him, And bringeth him before great men. — read the full passage →

For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.

And he called unto him the multitude with his disciples, and said unto them, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →

For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness. — read the full passage →

The elder unto Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of Jehovah came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chislev. — read the full passage →

He that is of a greedy spirit stirreth up strife; But he that putteth his trust in Jehovah shall be made fat.

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Neither hath he hid his face from him; But when he cried unto him, he heard. — read the full passage →

After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. — read the full passage →

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 →