Being Selfish

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth; — read the full passage →

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves-- — read the full passage →

each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers; — read the full passage →

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? — read the full passage →

Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, And not unto dishonest gain.

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

`No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

For <FI>an object of<Fi> desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

and she who is given to luxury, living--hath died;

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

And we ought--we who are strong--to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves; — read the full passage →

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

`Him it behoveth to increase, and me to become less;

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

for where zeal and rivalry <FI>are<Fi> , there is insurrection and every evil matter;

let no one seek his own--but each another's.

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

`And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

and the other out of love, having known that for defence of the good news I am set:

and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you--to the age;

The love doth never fail; and whether <FI>there be<Fi> prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless; — read the full passage →

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him--'

I sought Jehovah, and He answered me, And from all my fears did deliver me.

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

So the last shall be first, and the first last, for many are called, and few chosen.'

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I--I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

for that which I work, I do not acknowledge; for not what I will, this I practise, but what I hate, this I do. — read the full passage →

and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

`For--as a man going abroad did call his own servants, and did deliver to them his substance, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah saith unto Cain, `Where <FI>is<Fi> Abel thy brother?' and he saith, `I have not known; my brother's keeper--I?'

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

For as he hath thought in his soul, so <FI>is<Fi> he, `Eat and drink,' saith he to thee, And his heart <FI>is<Fi> not with thee.

I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them--Diotrephes--doth not receive us;

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like <FI>it<Fi> , this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; --greater than these there is no other command.'

And the dogs <FI>are<Fi> strong of desire, They have not known sufficiency, And they <FI>are<Fi> shepherds! They have not known understanding, All of them to their own way they did turn, Each to his dishonest gain from his quarter:

And draw near do the days of David to die, and he chargeth Solomon his son, saying, — read the full passage →

not as Cain--of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.

And it cometh to pass, after these things, a vineyard hath been to Naboth the Jezreelite, that <FI>is<Fi> in Jezreel, near the palace of Ahab king of Samaria, — read the full passage →

A kind man is rewarding his own soul, And the fierce is troubling his own flesh. — read the full passage →

And the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceiveth and beareth Cain, and saith, `I have gotten a man by Jehovah;' — read the full passage →

If, then, any exhortation <FI>is<Fi> in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

and when they were come unto him, he said to them, `Ye--ye know from the first day in which I came to Asia, how, with you at all times I was; — read the full passage →

and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she <FI>is<Fi> thy life.

let us not become vain-glorious--one another provoking, one another envying!

and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

`Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able; — read the full passage →

Crooked <FI>is<Fi> the heart above all things, And it <FI>is<Fi> incurable--who doth know it?

The good of eye--he is blessed, For he hath given of his bread to the poor.

And we ought--we who are strong--to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves; — read the full passage →

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

`Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence.

and these, as irrational natural beasts, made to be caught and destroyed--in what things they are ignorant of, speaking evil--in their destruction shall be destroyed, — read the full passage →

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

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

Elders who <FI>are<Fi> among you, I exhort, who <FI>am<Fi> a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker,

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

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

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre; — read the full passage →

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

An aged person thou mayest not rebuke, but be entreating as a father; younger persons as brethren; — read the full passage →

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

Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus; — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

Also you--being dead in the trespasses and the sins, — read the full passage →

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; — read the full passage →

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought--for desires.

`I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

And all the tax-gatherers and the sinners were coming nigh to him, to hear him, — read the full passage →

and the shepherds turned back, glorifying and praising God, for all those things they heard and saw, as it was spoken unto them. — read the full passage →

and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another. — read the full passage →

Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened.

And thou--thou seekest for thee great things--do not seek, for lo, I am bringing in evil on all flesh--an affirmation of Jehovah--and I have given to thee thy life for a spoil, in all places whither thou goest.'

Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill, — read the full passage →

The gift of a man maketh room for him, And before the great it leadeth him. — read the full passage →

for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor--being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.

And having called near the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, `Whoever doth will to come after me--let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me; — read the full passage →

because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom have all the nations drunk, and the kings of the earth with her did commit whoredom, and merchants of the earth from the power of her revel were made rich. — read the full passage →

The Elder to Gaius the beloved, whom I love in truth! — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass, in the fourth year of Darius the king hath a word of Jehovah been unto Zechariah, in the fourth of the ninth month, in Chisleu. — read the full passage →

Whoso is proud in soul stirreth up contention, And whoso is trusting on Jehovah is made fat.

For He hath not despised, nor abominated, The affliction of the afflicted, Nor hath He hidden His face from him, And in his crying unto Him He heareth. — read the full passage →

After these things and this truth, come hath Sennacherib king of Asshur, yea, he cometh in to Judah, and encampeth against the cities of the bulwarks, and saith to rend them unto himself. — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son <FI>is<Fi> an affliction to his mother. — read the full passage →

And having seen the multitudes, he went up to the mount, and he having sat down, his disciples came to him, — read the full passage →