Loving Ones Self

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

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

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

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 →

of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;

`But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.

for where your treasure is, there also your heart will be.

`Then shall the reign of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went forth to meet the bridegroom; — read the full passage →

`Ye may not give that which is <FI>holy<Fi> to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned--may rend you.

for the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world, by the things made being understood, are plainly seen, both His eternal power and Godhead--to their being inexcusable;