Self Respect

for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

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

I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee; I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.

But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need.

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

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

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. — read the full passage →

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

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity. — read the full passage →

But as many as received him, to them gave he the right to become children of God, even to them that believe on his name:

Brethren, I count not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, — read the full passage →

But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.

and lest thou say in thy heart, My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth. — read the full passage →

All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Wherefore 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.

lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,

For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world, even our faith.

ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me. — read the full passage →

Since thou hast been precious in my sight, and honorable, and I have loved thee; therefore will I give men in thy stead, and peoples instead of thy life.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. — read the full passage →

And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. — read the full passage →

Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother’s womb.

Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren: — read the full passage →

Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their feet, and turn and rend you.

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

knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers; — read the full passage →

Jehovah appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →

And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

And Jesus looking upon them said to them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your souls, as they that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for this were unprofitable for you.

and without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.

Strength and dignity are her clothing; And she laugheth at the time to come.

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

Pray for us: for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.

For our glorying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? — read the full passage →

in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

Nay, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary: — read the full passage →

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

For thou art my hope, O Lord Jehovah: Thou artmy trust from my youth.

Is not thy fear of God thy confidence, Andthe integrity of thy ways thy hope?

that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:

All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any. — read the full passage →

But let the brother of low degree glory in his high estate: — read the full passage →

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

which is an earnest of our inheritance, unto the redemption of God’s own possession, unto the praise of his glory.

though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh: if any other man thinketh to have confidence in the flesh, I yet more: — read the full passage →

And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, who stood afar off: — read the full passage →

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I destroy: Him that hath a high look and a proud heart will I not suffer.

For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.