Having A Teachable Spirit

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.”

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers; — read the full passage →

He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

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

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

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

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Most certainly, I tell you, whoever doesn’t receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it.”

But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah. — read the full passage →

When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn’t know how to receive admonition any more.

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,’ says Yahweh.

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. — read the full passage →

His servants came near, and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had asked you do some great thing, wouldn’t you have done it? How much rather then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean?’” — read the full passage →

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries. — read the full passage →

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. — read the full passage →

Samuel said to Saul, “Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of Yahweh’s words. — read the full passage →

It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites. — read the full passage →

“‘If they confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me, and also that, because they walked contrary to me,

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn’t have God’s Son doesn’t have the life.

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

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.

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

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,

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

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do. — read the full passage →

For I know that this will turn out to my salvation, through your supplication and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ,

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Behold, two of them were going that very day to a village named Emmaus, which was sixty stadia from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Be careful therefore how you hear. For whoever has, to him will be given; and whoever doesn’t have, from him will be taken away even that which he thinks he has.”

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? listen diligently to me, and eat you that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. — read the full passage →

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the hold of the pit you were dug from.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.

Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered. — read the full passage →

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”