Selfish Gain

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. — read the full passage →

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer. — read the full passage →

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law.

Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes. I will keep them to the end. — read the full passage →

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn’t return there, but waters the earth, and makes it grow and bud, and gives 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 the 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 →

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. — read the full passage →

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

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly 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’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

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

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

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor.

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

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful.

Jesus answered them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” They marveled greatly at him.

But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, ‘Son, go work today in my vineyard.’ — read the full passage →

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.”

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will 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, to the glory and praise of God.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ; — read the full passage →

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies. — read the full passage →

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

They watched him, and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor. — read the full passage →

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here not wearing wedding clothing?’ He was speechless. — read the full passage →

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock. — read the full passage →

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. — 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.

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights— I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations. — read the full passage →

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, 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 you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” — read the full passage →

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

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. — read the full passage →

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. — read the full passage →

When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. — 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.

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free. — read the full passage →

“Therefore be merciful, even as your Father is also merciful. — read the full passage →

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

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

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

As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him. — read the full passage →

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls. — read the full passage →

Your mother was like a vine, in your 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 Yahweh’s house, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things. — read the full passage →

Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed. How then have you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Now Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit. — read the full passage →

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 →

Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty! For all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all. — read the full passage →

To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.” — read the full passage →

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →