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For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them, — read the full passage →

Woe,whenmen speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

All the people took notice of it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

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

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. — read the full passage →

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Job again took up his parable, and said, — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. — read the full passage →

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

It is not good to eat much honey; nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is. — read the full passage →

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood. — read the full passage →

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

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

Wealth adds many friends, but the poor is separated from his friend.

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother. — read the full passage →

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed. — read the full passage →

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. — read the full passage →

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets; — read the full passage →

Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly. — read the full passage →

The high priest said, “Are these things so?” — read the full passage →

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

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh 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, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously? — read the full passage →

Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can’t understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house. — read the full passage →

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them. — read the full passage →

God of my praise, don’t remain silent, — read the full passage →

All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the broad place that was before the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel. — read the full passage →

Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews. — read the full passage →

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

Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up the sons of Ahab, saying, — read the full passage →

There happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, “We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse. Every man to his tents, Israel!” — read the full passage →

in that you love those who hate you, and hate those who love you. For you have declared this day, that princes and servants are nothing to you. For today I perceive that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it would have pleased you well.

Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. It was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.” — read the full passage →

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

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

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

For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in; — read the full passage →

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, — read the full passage →

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him. — read the full passage →

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil. — read the full passage →

For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;

Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh. — read the full passage →

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; — read the full passage →

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

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. — read the full passage →

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

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.

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. — read the full passage →

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God? — read the full passage →

They came to John, and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him.” — read the full passage →

On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders. — read the full passage →

Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake. — read the full passage →

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.” — read the full passage →

He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness. — read the full passage →

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. — read the full passage →

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. — read the full passage →

but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.” — read the full passage →

How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become tributary! — read the full passage →

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days. — read the full passage →

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

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

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands. — read the full passage →

The ransom of a man’s life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats. — read the full passage →

Better is he who is lightly esteemed, and has a servant, than he who honors himself, and lacks bread. — read the full passage →

Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication. — read the full passage →

Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world, — read the full passage →

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth, who has set your 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 prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

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

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

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