Fame

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

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. — read the full passage →

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. — read the full passage →

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity,

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: — read the full passage →

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.

As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: but the rich hath many friends.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. — read the full passage →

Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: — read the full passage →

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

Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; — read the full passage →

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? — read the full passage →

The rich man is wise in his own conceit; but the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. — read the full passage →

He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. — read the full passage →

Be not a witness against thy neighbour without cause; and deceive not with thy lips.

Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. — read the full passage →

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

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

And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God.

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, — read the full passage →

But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. — read the full passage →

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. — read the full passage →

A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.

Better is the poor that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool. — read the full passage →

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men. — read the full passage →

Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts; — read the full passage →

But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. — read the full passage →

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord. — read the full passage →

So the Lord was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.

Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. — read the full passage →

And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. — read the full passage →

If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, — read the full passage →

Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. — read the full passage →

Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. — read the full passage →

Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.

Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord, O my soul. — read the full passage →

Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye the name of the Lord; praise him, O ye servants of the Lord. — read the full passage →

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. — read the full passage →

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? — read the full passage →

And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. — read the full passage →

And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the Lord thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,

And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. — read the full passage →

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: — read the full passage →

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. — read the full passage →

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

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of the Greeks believed.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. — read the full passage →

Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! — read the full passage →

And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. — read the full passage →

After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. — read the full passage →

But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities. — read the full passage →

He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise. — read the full passage →

And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, — read the full passage →

And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.

But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.

And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; — read the full passage →

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. — read the full passage →

The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke. — read the full passage →

For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the Lord must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the Lord brought the fear of him upon all nations.

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions.

For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.

And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the Lord shall rule over you. — read the full passage →

Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. — read the full passage →

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. — read the full passage →

And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall also stand up against the Prince of princes; but he shall be broken without hand. — read the full passage →

And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord. — read the full passage →