Self Respect

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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.

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.

I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.

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.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

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

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

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

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

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

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

“Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

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.

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

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, 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. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

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

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

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

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — 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.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who 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 would be holy and without defect before him in love;

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.”

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 →

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.”

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity. — read the full passage →

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken 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 test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.” — read the full passage →

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

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.

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

My enemies want to swallow me up all day long, for they are many who fight proudly against me. — read the full passage →

Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

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,

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 sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” — read the full passage →

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. — read the full passage →

‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

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

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, — read the full passage →

Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

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. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall rise up before the gray head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

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

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

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

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

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

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

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

Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, 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 nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

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 pleases the Lord.

For our boasting 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 toward you.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

in whom you also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

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

No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. — read the full passage →

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.

For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.

Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is 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 anything. — read the full passage →

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position; — 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.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of his glory.

though I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has confidence in the flesh, I yet more: — read the full passage →

As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance. — read the full passage →

I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won’t tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.