Ego

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

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

“If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Jesus therefore said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

“I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

Nebuchadnezzar the king, to all the peoples, nations, and languages, who dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you. — read the full passage →

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

A certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

But he withdrew himself into the desert, and prayed.

I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. — read the full passage →

When therefore he said to them, “I am he,” they went backward, and fell to the ground.

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

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.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him. — read the full passage →

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Jesus therefore answered them, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — 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.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans. — read the full passage →

The Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in your midst, even as you yourselves know,

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Early in the morning, while it was still dark, he rose up and went out, and departed into a deserted place, and prayed there.

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

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

As he was praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

God presides in the great assembly. He judges among the gods. — read the full passage →

You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. — read the full passage →

One of them, named Cleopas, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have happened there in these days?” — read the full passage →

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also had been baptized, and was praying. The sky was opened,

The rooster crowed the second time. Peter remembered the word, how that Jesus said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” When he thought about that, he wept.

One of the scribes came, and heard them questioning together. Knowing that he had answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the greatest of all?” — read the full passage →

When they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, — read the full passage →

but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared.” — read the full passage →

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

After he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into the mountain by himself to pray. When evening had come, he was there alone.

I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake up, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

Thus says Yahweh to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, to subdue nations before him, and strip kings of their armor; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem: — read the full passage →

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

besides their male servants and their female servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty-seven: and they had two hundred forty-five singing men and singing women. — read the full passage →

Forty-two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Athaliah the daughter of Omri. — read the full passage →

So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Take your choice: — read the full passage →

David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots. — read the full passage →

Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains; — read the full passage →

So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”

But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bore to Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she bore to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

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

John answered, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven. — read the full passage →

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants. — read the full passage →

Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, from whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

“You are my witnesses,” says Yahweh, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

When Tou king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer king of Zobah, — read the full passage →

Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)

His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself. — read the full passage →