Selfish Gain

Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. — read the full passage →

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer: — read the full passage →

Blessed are they that are perfect in the way, Who walk in the law of Jehovah.

Teach me, O Jehovah, the way of thy statutes; And I shall keep it unto the end. — read the full passage →

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

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →

For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater; — read the full passage →

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

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

Judge not, that ye be not judged. — read the full passage →

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. — read the full passage →

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, 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 →

whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart, And lean not upon thine own understanding: — read the full passage →

And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.

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

Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

And Jesus said unto them, Render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s. And they marvelled greatly at him.

But what think ye? A man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in the vineyard. — read the full passage →

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.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing shall I be put to shame, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life, or by death. — read the full passage →

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.

Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ: — read the full passage →

Only, as the Lord hath distributed to each man, as God hath called each, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all the churches. — read the full passage →

And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →

And they watched him, and sent forth spies, who feigned themselves to be righteous, that they might take hold of his speech, so as to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor. — read the full passage →

Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother sin, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. — read the full passage →

and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless. — read the full passage →

Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock: — read the full passage →

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven. — 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.

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delighteth: I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. — read the full passage →

Let me sing for my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people; but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am Jehovah.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Pilate therefore entered again into the Prætorium, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews? — read the full passage →

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. — read the full passage →

Let not your heart be troubled: believe in God, believe also in me. — read the full passage →

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him; — read the full passage →

When therefore he was gone out, Jesus saith, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him; — 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.

And judge not, and ye shall not be judged: and condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: release, and ye shall be released: — read the full passage →

Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful. — read the full passage →

Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times? — read the full passage →

And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →

But the Pharisees went out, and took counsel against him, how they might destroy him. — read the full passage →

And as Jesus passed by from thence, he saw a man, called Matthew, sitting at the place of toll: and he saith unto him, Follow me. And he arose, and followed him. — read the full passage →

Judge not, that ye be not judged. — read the full passage →

Take with you words, and return unto Jehovah: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good: so will we render as bullocks the offering of our lips. — read the full passage →

Thy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. — read the full passage →

Now Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who was chief officer in the house of Jehovah, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. — read the full passage →

Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?

Now the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

Now the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Thus saith Jehovah, Keep ye justice, and do righteousness; for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. — read the full passage →

And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit. — read the full passage →

And they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading. — read the full passage →

Thine, O Jehovah, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Jehovah, and thou art exalted as head above all. — read the full passage →

And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord Jehovah before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass after the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →