Self Pity

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

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.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

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 →

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice, I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

“Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

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.

You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.

For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants.

We love him, because he first loved us. — read the full passage →

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →

Why do you cry for your hurt? Your pain is incurable: for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased, I have done these things to you.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

I now rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that you were made sorry to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly way, that you might suffer loss by us in nothing. — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

“Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me. — read the full passage →

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

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.

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.

Neither grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer. — read the full passage →

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped. — read the full passage →

Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;

Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated with your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? — read the full passage →

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh, — read the full passage →

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them. — read the full passage →

Then Job answered, — read the full passage →

Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed to Yahweh, saying, — read the full passage →

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us flesh to eat? — read the full passage →

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet everyone of them curses me.

Then Job answered, — read the full passage →

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. — read the full passage →

Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning, — read the full passage →

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,

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

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. — read the full passage →

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

Yet you wouldn’t go up, but rebelled against the commandment of Yahweh your God. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me; — read the full passage →

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; — read the full passage →

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

They lifted up their voices, saying, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. — read the full passage →

I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. — read the full passage →

Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion. — read the full passage →

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

All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night. — read the full passage →

When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me? — read the full passage →

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”

Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.”

Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded; you are stronger than I, and have prevailed: I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocks me. — read the full passage →

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.