Self Sufficiency

Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: — read the full passage →

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. — read the full passage →

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

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.

A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: — read the full passage →

For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;

And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. — read the full passage →

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; — read the full passage →

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

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — read the full passage →

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: — read the full passage →

And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: — read the full passage →

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — 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.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. — read the full passage →

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.

Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth–lehem–judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

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

In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.

The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? — read the full passage →

I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.

Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. — read the full passage →

And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. — read the full passage →

How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. — read the full passage →

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

I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; — read the full passage →

And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after.

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: — read the full passage →

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. — read the full passage →

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. — read the full passage →

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.

Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. — read the full passage →

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. — read the full passage →

And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

And Abraham planted a grove in Beer–sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.