Not Being Offended

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.”

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

A fool shows his annoyance the same day, but one who overlooks an insult is prudent.

In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer.

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

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Also don’t take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you; — read the full passage →

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

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 is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

Therefore many of his disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying! Who can listen to it?” — read the full passage →

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

For those who are such don’t serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

But we desire to hear from you what you think. For, as concerning this sect, it is known to us that everywhere it is spoken against.”

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever. — read the full passage →

They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice. — read the full passage →

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city; and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse. — read the full passage →

Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.

He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.

An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment. — read the full passage →

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice for a time of about two hours cried out, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

Tongues like fire appeared and were distributed to them, and one sat on each of them.

He said to them, “Doubtless you will tell me this parable, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’”

“Sing, barren, you who didn’t bear; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife,” says Yahweh.

The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field. — read the full passage →

All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your seed, because you have obeyed my voice.”

not to be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.

But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and determined to kill them.

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often. — read the full passage →

that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.

Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!” — read the full passage →

Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

The heart knows its own bitterness and joy; he will not share these with a stranger. — read the full passage →

I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him. — read the full passage →

You shall therefore keep my statutes and my ordinances; which if a man does, he shall live in them. I am Yahweh.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart. — read the full passage →

One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue. — read the full passage →

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. — read the full passage →

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!” — read the full passage →

Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

Let us fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest. — read the full passage →

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;

When many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired together to kill him,

“I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ — read the full passage →

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; don’t fear the reproach of men, neither be dismayed at their insults. — read the full passage →

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life. — read the full passage →

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

As we were going to prayer, a certain girl having a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much gain by fortune telling. — read the full passage →

they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth. — read the full passage →

Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? — read the full passage →

They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt? — read the full passage →

The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son. — read the full passage →

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure. — read the full passage →

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, — read the full passage →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

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

but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. — read the full passage →

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

They continued three years without war between Syria and Israel. — read the full passage →

He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers.”

Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

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. — read the full passage →

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be. — read the full passage →

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. — read the full passage →

Blessed are you when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake. — read the full passage →

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, — read the full passage →

A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both. — read the full passage →

Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. — read the full passage →

Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →