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For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

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.

And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, — read the full passage →

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

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.

The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. — read the full passage →

But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

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

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them: as whatsoever the king did pleased all the people.

If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. — read the full passage →

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. — read the full passage →

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

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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

And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. — read the full passage →

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. — read the full passage →

And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Moreover Job continued his parable, and said, — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: — read the full passage →

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

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

We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. — read the full passage →

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. — read the full passage →

And the apostles and brethren that were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God. — read the full passage →

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. — read the full passage →

Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. — read the full passage →

As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

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. — read the full passage →

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. — read the full passage →

But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: — read the full passage →

Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. — read the full passage →

Then said the high priest, Are these things so? — read the full passage →

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. — read the full passage →

And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. — read the full passage →

The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying, — read the full passage →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? — read the full passage →

Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord. — read the full passage →

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them. — read the full passage →

Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; — read the full passage →

And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel. — read the full passage →

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. — read the full passage →

Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. — read the full passage →

And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab’s children, saying, — read the full passage →

And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel. — read the full passage →

In that thou lovest thine enemies, and hatest thy friends. For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest neither princes nor servants: for this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.

And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that when any man that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel. — 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 →

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. — read the full passage →

For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; — read the full passage →

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, — read the full passage →

Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. — read the full passage →

Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. — read the full passage →

For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh. — read the full passage →

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) — read the full passage →

And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. — read the full passage →

Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. — read the full passage →

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

He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. — read the full passage →

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

And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, that on one of those days, as he taught the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes came upon him with the elders, — read the full passage →

Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. — read the full passage →

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen. — read the full passage →

And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. — read the full passage →

Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: — read the full passage →

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. — read the full passage →

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. — read the full passage →

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! — read the full passage →

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days. — read the full passage →

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. — read the full passage →

These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. — read the full passage →

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. — read the full passage →

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

He that is despised, and hath a servant, is better than he that honoureth himself, and lacketh bread. — read the full passage →

Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. — read the full passage →

Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: — read the full passage →

Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. — read the full passage →

O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. — read the full passage →

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. — read the full passage →

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

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. — read the full passage →

A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

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