Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.
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Galatians 6:14
But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.
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Genesis 34:15
But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;
1 Kings 22:4
And he said to Jehoshaphat, Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead to make war? And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, I am as you are: my people as your people, my horses as your horses.
2 Chronicles 19:2
And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.
1 Corinthians 7:39
It is right for a wife to be with her husband as long as he is living; but when her husband is dead, she is free to be married to another; but only to a Christian.
1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation.
1 Corinthians 9:22
To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.
1 Corinthians 9:23
And I do all things for the cause of the good news, so that I may have a part in it.
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Genesis 44:7
And they said to him, Why does my lord say such words as these? far be it from your servants to do such a thing:
1 Samuel 24:6
And David said to his men, Before the Lord, never let it be said that my hand was lifted up against my lord, the man of the Lord's selection, for the Lord's holy oil has been put on him.
1 Samuel 26:9
And David said to Abishai Do not put him to death; for who, without sin, may put out his hand against the man on whom the Lord has put the holy oil?
1 Samuel 26:10
And David said, By the living Lord, the Lord will send destruction on him; the natural day of his death will come, or he will go into the fight and come to his end.
1 Samuel 26:11
Never will my hand be stretched out against the man marked with the holy oil; but take the spear which is by his head and the vessel of water, and let us go.
1 Kings 21:3
But Naboth said to Ahab, By the Lord, far be it from me to give you the heritage of my fathers.
1 Chronicles 11:19
Saying, By my God, far be it from me to do this! How may I take as drink the life-blood of these men who have put their lives in danger? so he did not take it. These things did the three great men of war.
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Leviticus 2:11
No meal offering which you give to the Lord is to be made with leaven; no leaven or honey is to be burned as an offering made by fire to the Lord.
Luke 16:15
And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.
John 5:44
How is it possible for you to have faith while you take honour one from another and have no desire for the honour which comes from the only God?
John 12:43
For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.
1 Corinthians 5:6
This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?
1 Corinthians 10:31
So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 5:16
For this reason, from this time forward we have knowledge of no man after the flesh: even if we have had knowledge of Christ after the flesh, we have no longer any such knowledge.
Galatians 1:10
Am I now using arguments to men, or God? or is it my desire to give men pleasure? if I was still pleasing men, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Philippians 2:21
For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ.
Philippians 3:19
Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
1 Peter 4:11
If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.
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Deuteronomy 30:19
Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed:
Joshua 24:15
And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.
Ezra 5:11
And they made answer to us, saying, We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house which was put up in times long past and was designed and made complete by a great king of Israel.
Psalms 119:46
So that I may give knowledge of your unchanging word before kings, and not be put to shame.
Daniel 3:26
Then Nebuchadnezzar came near the door of the burning and flaming fire: he made answer and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, you servants of the Most High God, come out and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came out of the fire.
Jonah 1:9
And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, a worshipper of the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.
Acts 27:23
For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am,
Romans 6:16
Are you not conscious that you are the servants of him to whom you give yourselves to do his desire? if to sin, the end being death, or if to do the desire of God, the end being righteousness.
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1 Samuel 14:45
And the people said to Saul, Is death to come to Jonathan, the worker of this great salvation for Israel? Let it not be so: by the living Lord, not one hair of his head is to be touched, for he has been working with God today. So the people kept Jonathan from death.
1 Samuel 20:2
And he said to him, Far be the thought: you will not be put to death: see, my father does nothing, great or small, without giving me word of it: would he keep this secret from me? It is not so.
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1 Samuel 17:51
So running up to the Philistine and putting his foot on him, David took his sword out of its cover, and put him to death, cutting off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their fighter was dead, they went in flight.
1 Samuel 17:52
And the men of Israel and of Judah got up, and gave a cry, and went after the Philistines as far as Gath and the town doors of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines were falling down by the road from Shaaraim all the way to Gath and Ekron.
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2 Kings 14:9
And Jehoash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.
2 Kings 14:10
It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?
2 Kings 14:11
But Amaziah gave no attention. So Jehoash, king of Israel, went up, and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh, which is in Judah.
Song of Solomon 2:2
As the lily-flower among the thorns of the waste, so is my love among the daughters.
Zechariah 1:20
And the Lord gave me a vision of four metal-workers.
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1 Chronicles 16:10
Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.
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1 Chronicles 16:35
And say, Be our saviour, O God of our salvation, and let us come back, and give us salvation from the nations, so that we may give honour to your holy name and have glory in your praise.
Psalms 44:8
Our pride is in God at all times, to his name we give praise for ever. (Selah.)
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Job 31:24
If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you;
Job 31:25
If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;
Psalms 49:6
Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.
Psalms 49:13
This is the way of the foolish; their silver is for those who come after them, and their children get the pleasure of their gold. (Selah.)
Psalms 52:1
To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?
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Psalms 22:6
But I am a worm and not a man; cursed by men, and looked down on by the people.
Psalms 22:7
I am laughed at by all those who see me: pushing out their lips and shaking their heads they say,
Psalms 22:8
He put his faith in the Lord; let the Lord be his saviour now: let the Lord be his saviour, because he had delight in him.
Isaiah 53:1
Who would have had faith in the word which has come to our ears, and to whom had the arm of the Lord been unveiled?
Isaiah 53:3
Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
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Psalms 97:11
Light is shining on the lovers of righteousness, and for the upright in heart there is joy.
Psalms 106:5
So that I may see the well-being of the people of your selection, and have a part in the joy of your nation, and take pride in your heritage.
Psalms 119:37
Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.
Isaiah 2:5
O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.
Isaiah 65:16
So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.
John 15:19
If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.
Romans 3:24
And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:
Romans 8:3
For what the law was not able to do because it was feeble through the flesh, God, sending his Son in the image of the evil flesh, and as an offering for sin, gave his decision against sin in the flesh:
Romans 8:4
So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.
1 Corinthians 15:58
For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.
2 Timothy 2:13
If we are without faith, still he keeps faith, for he will never be untrue to himself.
1 John 2:23
He who has no belief in the Son has not the Father: he who makes clear his belief in the Son has the Father.
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Psalms 112:2
His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.
Romans 2:27
And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.
Romans 2:28
The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:
Romans 2:29
But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
Romans 4:6
As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,
Romans 4:9
Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness.
Romans 4:11
And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;
Romans 7:6
But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.
Galatians 3:7
Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.
Galatians 3:8
And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.
Galatians 3:9
So then those who are of faith have a part in the blessing of Abraham who was full of faith.
Galatians 3:29
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.
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Proverbs 21:25
The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.
Jeremiah 45:5
And as for you, are you looking for great things for yourself? Have no desire for them: for truly I will send evil on all flesh, says the Lord: but your life I will keep safe from attack wherever you go.
John 5:41
I do not take honour from men;
John 7:18
The man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of him who sent him--that man is true and there is no evil in him.
John 8:49
And this was the answer of Jesus: I have not an evil spirit; but I give honour to my Father and you do not give honour to me.
2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?
Philippians 2:3
Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;
Philippians 2:4
Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.
Philippians 2:5
Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus,
Philippians 3:11
If in any way I may have the reward of life from the dead.
Philippians 3:20
For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:
1 Thessalonians 2:6
Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.
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Ecclesiastes 7:16
Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?
Isaiah 45:24
Only in the Lord will Jacob overcome and be strong: together all those who were angry with him will be put to shame and come to destruction.
Isaiah 54:9
For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.
Isaiah 65:17
For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.
Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child he was dear to me; and I took my son out of Egypt.
John 1:36
And looking at Jesus while he was walking he said, See, there is the Lamb of God!
Romans 3:25
Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;
Romans 3:26
And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.
Romans 5:21
That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 John 5:19
We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.
1 John 5:20
And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Revelation 12:1
And a great sign was seen in heaven: a A woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
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Isaiah 28:17
And I will make right decision the measuring-line, and righteousness the weight: and the ice-storm will take away the safe place of false words, and the secret place will be covered by the flowing waters.
Ezekiel 40:3
He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway.
Ezekiel 40:4
And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel.
Ezekiel 40:5
And there was a wall on the outside of the house all round, and in the man's hand there was a measuring rod six cubits long by a cubit and a hand's measure: so he took the measure of the building from side to side, one rod; and from base to top, one rod.
Zechariah 2:1
And lifting up my eyes, I saw a man with a measuring-line in his hand.
Zechariah 2:2
And I said to him, Where are you going? And he said to me, To take the measure of Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.
Revelation 11:1
And there was given to me a measuring rod: and one said, Go up and take the measure of the house of God, and the altar, and the worshippers in it.
Revelation 21:15
And he who was talking with me had a gold measuring-rod to take the measure of the town, and of its doors, and its wall.
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Isaiah 48:6
All this has come to your ears and you have seen it; will you not give witness to it? I am now making clear new things, even secret things, of which you had no knowledge.
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Isaiah 48:7
They have only now been effected, and not in the past: and before this day they had not come to your ears; for fear that you might say, I had knowledge of them.
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Jeremiah 48:29
We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride; and his great opinion of himself, and that his heart is lifted up.
Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the Lord has said: Because your heart has been lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I am seated on the seat of God in the heart of the seas; but you are man and not God, though you have made your heart as the heart of God:
Daniel 4:30
The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?
Daniel 4:31
While the word was still in the king's mouth, a voice came down from heaven, saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is said: The kingdom has gone from you:
Daniel 5:20
But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him:
Daniel 5:21
And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure.
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Ezekiel 42:15
And when he had come to the end of measuring the inner house, he took me out to the doorway looking to the east, and took its measure all round.
Ezekiel 42:16
He went round and took the measure of it on the east side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.
Ezekiel 42:17
And he went round and took the measure of it on the north side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.
Ezekiel 42:18
And he went round and took the measure of it on the south side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.
Ezekiel 42:19
And he went round and took the measure of it on the west side with the measuring rod, five hundred, measured with the rod all round.
Ezekiel 42:20
He took its measure on the four sides: and it had a wall all round, five hundred long and five hundred wide, separating what was holy from what was common.
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Matthew 5:47
And if you say, Good day, to your brothers only, what do you do more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?
Matthew 16:24
Then Jesus said to his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross, and come after me.
Matthew 27:32
And while they were coming out, they saw a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they made him go with them, so that he might take up his cross.
Luke 9:23
And he said to them all, If any man has a desire to come after me, let him give up all, and take up his cross every day, and come after me.
Luke 19:26
And I say to you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
John 19:17
And he went out with his cross on him to the place which is named Dead Man's Head (in Hebrew, Golgotha):
Acts 20:23
Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.
1 Corinthians 4:10
We are made to seem foolish for Christ, but you are wise in Christ; we are feeble, but you are strong; you have glory, but we have shame.
1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this hour we are without food, drink, and clothing, we are given blows and have no certain resting-place;
2 Corinthians 4:8
Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them;
2 Corinthians 6:9
Unnoted, but still kept fully in mind; as near to death, but still living; as undergoing punishment, but not put to death;
Hebrews 10:33
In part, in being attacked by angry words and cruel acts, before the eyes of everyone, and in part, in being united with those who were attacked in this way.
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Matthew 23:34
For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;
Matthew 23:35
So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.
Matthew 23:36
Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation.
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!
1 Thessalonians 2:14
For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews;
1 Thessalonians 2:15
Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;
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Mark 10:28
Peter said to him, See, we have given up everything, and come after you.
Mark 10:29
Jesus said, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, because of me and the good news,
Mark 10:30
Who will not get a hundred times as much now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land--though with great troubles; and, in the world to come, eternal life.
Mark 10:31
But a great number who are first will be last: and those who are last will be first.
Luke 18:28
And Peter said, See, we have given up what is ours to come after you.
Luke 18:29
And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house or wife or brothers or father or mother or children, because of the kingdom of God,
Luke 18:30
Who will not get much more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life.
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Psalms 68:18
You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.
Proverbs 17:15
He who gives a decision for the evil-doer and he who gives a decision against the upright, are equally disgusting to the Lord.
John 15:18
If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.
John 16:11
Of being judged, because the ruler of this world has been judged.
John 17:3
And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.
Acts 4:29
And now, Lord, take note of their cruel words, and give your servants power to be preachers of your word without fear,
Romans 10:9
Because, if you say with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and have faith in your heart that God has made him come back from the dead, you will have salvation:
Romans 10:10
For with the heart man has faith to get righteousness, and with the mouth he says that Jesus is Lord to get salvation.
Galatians 3:13
Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:
Ephesians 3:8
To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, was this grace given, so that I might make clear to the Gentiles the good news of the unending wealth of Christ:
Hebrews 2:14
And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;
1 John 4:4
You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
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Luke 24:20
And how the chief priests and our rulers gave him up to be put to death on the cross.
Luke 24:46
And he said to them, So it is in the Writings that the Christ would undergo death, and come back to life again on the third day;
Luke 24:47
And that teaching about a change of heart and forgiveness of sins is to be given to Jerusalem first and to all nations in his name.
Acts 4:20
For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.
Acts 5:31
Him God has put on high at his right hand, as a Ruler and a Saviour, to give to Israel a change of heart and forgiveness of sins.
Acts 10:39
And we are witnesses of all the things which he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they put to death, hanging him on a tree.
Acts 10:40
On the third day God gave him back to life, and let him be seen,
Acts 10:41
Not by all the people, but by witnesses marked out before by God, even by us, who took food and drink with him after he came back from the dead.
Acts 10:42
And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.
Acts 10:43
To him all the prophets give witness, that through his name everyone who has faith in him will have forgiveness of sins.
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Acts 6:13
And they got false witnesses who said, This man is for ever saying things against this holy place and against the law:
Acts 28:17
Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews: and when they had come together, he said to them, My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was given, a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans.
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Acts 6:14
For he has said in our hearing that this Jesus of Nazareth will put this place to destruction and make changes in the rules which were handed down to us by Moses.
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Acts 7:32
I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob. And Moses, shaking with fear, kept his eyes from looking at it.
Acts 7:33
And the Lord said, Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.
Acts 7:34
Truly, I have seen the sorrows of my people in Egypt, and their cries have come to my ears, and I have come down to make them free: and now, come, I will send you to Egypt.
Acts 7:35
This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.
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Ezekiel 8:9
And he said to me, Go in and see the evil and disgusting things which they are doing here.
Romans 1:15
For which reason I have the desire, as far as I am able, to give the knowledge of the good news to you who are in Rome.
Romans 15:17
So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's.
2 Corinthians 11:30
If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble.
2 Corinthians 12:6
For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am.
2 Corinthians 12:7
And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.
2 Corinthians 12:8
And about this thing I made request to the Lord three times that it might be taken away from me.
2 Corinthians 12:9
And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.
2 Corinthians 12:11
I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.
Galatians 4:13
But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;
Galatians 4:14
And you did not have a poor opinion of me because of the trouble in my flesh, or put shame on it; but you took me to your hearts as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
Galatians 4:15
Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.
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2 Samuel 6:22
And I will do even worse than this, and make myself even lower in your eyes: but the servant-girls of whom you were talking will give me honour.
Matthew 5:11
Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.
Matthew 5:12
Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.
Mark 10:21
And Jesus, looking on him and loving him, said, There is one thing needed: go, get money for your goods, and give it to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven: and come with me.
Luke 14:27
Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple.
Acts 5:41
So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.
Acts 5:42
And every day, in the Temple and privately, they went on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.
Romans 5:3
And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;
Romans 5:5
And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
1 Corinthians 4:12
And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly;
Philippians 1:29
Because to you it has been given in the cause of Christ not only to have faith in him, but to undergo pain on his account:
Hebrews 12:3
Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose.
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Romans 7:5
For when we were in the flesh, the evil passions which came into being through the law were working in our bodies to give the fruit of death.
Romans 8:13
For if you go in the way of the flesh, death will come on you; but if by the Spirit you put to death the works of the body, you will have life.
Galatians 5:16
But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; because these are opposite the one to the other; so that you may not do the things which you have a mind to do.
Galatians 5:18
But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,
Galatians 5:20
Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,
Galatians 5:25
If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.
Galatians 6:7
Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.
1 Peter 2:11
My loved ones, I make this request with all my heart, that, as those for whom this world is a strange country, you will keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh which make war against the soul;
1 Peter 4:3
Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;
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Matthew 5:17
Let there be no thought that I have come to put an end to the law or the prophets. I have not come for destruction, but to make complete.
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
John 8:28
So Jesus said, When the Son of man has been lifted up by you, then it will be clear to you who I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but say as the Father gave me teaching.
Romans 6:3
Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?
Romans 9:11
Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,
Romans 9:23
And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with unveiled face giving back as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 4:5
For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus.
Ephesians 2:6
So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;
Ephesians 3:18
May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is,
Titus 2:11
For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,
Titus 2:12
Training us so that, turning away from evil and the desires of this world, we may be living wisely and uprightly in the knowledge of God in this present life;
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Romans 14:1
Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.
Romans 14:2
One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.
Romans 14:3
Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.
Romans 14:4
Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.
Romans 14:5
This man puts one day before another: to that man they are the same. Let every man be certain in his mind.
Romans 14:6
He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.
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Romans 15:19
By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;
2 Corinthians 11:18
Seeing that there are those who take credit to themselves after the flesh, I will do the same.
Galatians 4:16
So then am I no longer your friend, because I give you true words?
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1 Corinthians 1:22
Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge:
1 Corinthians 1:25
Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.
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Romans 2:25
It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.
Romans 2:26
If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision?
Romans 4:10
How, then, was it judged? when he had circumcision, or when he had it not? Not when he had it, but when he did not have it:
Romans 4:12
And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.
1 Corinthians 7:19
Circumcision is nothing, and its opposite is nothing, but only doing the orders of God is of value.
Ephesians 2:11
For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;
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John 8:50
I, however, am not in search of glory for myself: there is One who is searching for it and he is judge.
1 Corinthians 9:15
But I have not made use of any of these things: and I am not writing this in the hope that it may be so for me: for it would be better for me to undergo death, than for any man to make this pride of mine of no effect.
1 Corinthians 10:32
Give no cause of trouble to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God.
1 Corinthians 10:33
Even as I give way to all men in all things, not looking for profit for myself, but for the good of others, that they may get salvation.
Philippians 3:15
Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:
Philippians 3:16
Only, as far as we have got, let us be guided by the same rule.
Philippians 3:17
Brothers, take me as your example, and take note of those who are walking after the example we have given.
Philippians 4:9
The things which came to you by my teaching and preaching, and which you saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.
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Psalms 51:7
Make me free from sin with hyssop: let me be washed whiter than snow.
Matthew 1:21
And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.
John 4:14
But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.
John 14:30
After this I will not say much to you, because the ruler of this world comes: and he has no power over me;
Romans 16:20
And the God of peace will be crushing Satan under your feet before long. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
1 Corinthians 3:22
Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;
1 Corinthians 15:55
O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?
2 Corinthians 4:4
Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them.
Hebrews 11:28
By faith he kept the Passover, and put the sign of the blood on the houses, so that the angel of destruction might not put their oldest sons to death.
1 John 1:7
But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
Revelation 5:9
And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,
Revelation 7:9
After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,
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Mark 9:1
And he said to them, Truly I say to you, There are some here who will have no taste of death till they see the kingdom of God come with power.
John 3:16
For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.
John 15:13
Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.
Romans 3:3
And if some have no faith, will that make the faith of God without effect?
Romans 8:29
Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:
Romans 11:6
But if it is of grace, then it is no longer of works: or grace would not be grace.
1 Corinthians 15:56
The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
Hebrews 2:5
For he did not make the angels rulers over the world to come, of which I am writing.
Hebrews 6:5
With knowledge of the good word of God, and of the powers of the coming time,
Hebrews 9:26
For then he would have undergone a number of deaths from the time of the making of the world: but now he has come to us at the end of the old order, to put away sin by the offering of himself.
1 Peter 1:20
Who was marked out by God before the making of the world, but was caused to be seen in these last times for you,
1 John 3:16
In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.
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2 Corinthians 12:1
As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:2
I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only), who was taken up to the third heaven.
2 Corinthians 12:3
And I have knowledge of such a man (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only),
2 Corinthians 12:4
How he was taken up into Paradise, and words came to his ears which may not be said, and which man is not able to say.
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Galatians 1:15
But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,
Galatians 1:16
To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,
Galatians 1:17
And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus.
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Acts 15:1
Now certain men came down from Judaea, teaching the brothers and saying that without circumcision, after the rule of Moses, there is no salvation.
Acts 15:24
Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;
Acts 16:3
Paul had a desire for him to go with him, and he gave him circumcision because of the Jews who were in those parts: for they all had knowledge that his father was a Greek.
Galatians 2:1
Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me.
Galatians 2:3
But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was made to undergo circumcision:
Galatians 2:4
And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;
Galatians 2:5
To whom we gave way not even for an hour; so that the true words of the good news might still be with you.
Galatians 2:13
And the rest of the Jews went after him, so that even Barnabas was overcome by their false ways.
Galatians 2:14
But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?
Galatians 4:17
Their interest in you is not good; but their desire is that you may be shut out, so that you may go after them.
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Ephesians 6:14
Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness;
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Ephesians 6:17
And take salvation for your head-dress and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
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Philippians 4:11
But I will not say anything about my needs, for I am able, wherever I am, to be dependent on myself.
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Philippians 4:12
It is the same to me if I am looked down on or honoured; everywhere and in all things I have the secret of how to be full and how to go without food; how to have wealth and how to be in need.
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Psalms 62:7
In God is my salvation, and my glory; the Rock of my strength, and my safe place.
Jeremiah 3:23
Truly, the hills, and the noise of an army on the mountains, are a false hope: truly, in the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.
1 Corinthians 15:27
For, as it says, He has put all things under his feet. But when he says, All things are put under him, it is clear that it is not said about him who put all things under him.
Ephesians 1:22
And he has put all things under his feet, and has made him to be head over all things to the church,
Ephesians 1:23
Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.
Philippians 2:8
And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.
Philippians 2:9
For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name;
Philippians 2:10
So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld,
Philippians 2:11
And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Colossians 1:18
And he is the head of the body, the church: the starting point of all things, the first to come again from the dead; so that in all things he might have the chief place.
Colossians 1:19
For God in full measure was pleased to be in him;
Colossians 2:9
For in him all the wealth of God's being has a living form,
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Proverbs 28:4
Those who have no respect for the law give praise to the evil-doer; but such as keep the law are against him.
Song of Solomon 8:5
Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.
Isaiah 53:10
And the Lord was pleased...see a seed, long life, ...will do well in his hand. ...
Matthew 6:19
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.
John 17:16
They are not of the world any more than I am of the world.
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.
Galatians 4:29
But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Ephesians 2:9
Not by works, so that no man may take glory to himself.
1 Timothy 1:15
It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:
Hebrews 10:29
But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment?
2 John 1:9
Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.
Revelation 3:5
He who overcomes will be dressed in white, and I will not take his name from the book of life, and I will give witness to his name before my Father, and before his angels.
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Psalms 73:25
Whom have I in heaven but you? and having you I have no desire for anything on earth.
Matthew 13:46
And having come across one jewel of great price, he went and gave all he had in exchange for it.
Romans 8:38
For I am certain that not death, or life, or angels, or rulers, or things present, or things to come, or powers,
Romans 8:39
Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Colossians 2:12
Having been put to death with him in baptism, by which you came to life again with him, through faith in the working of God, who made him come back from the dead.
Colossians 2:13
And you, being dead through your sins and the evil condition of your flesh, to you, I say, he gave life together with him, and forgiveness of all our sins;
Colossians 3:4
At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.
1 Timothy 3:16
And without argument, great is the secret of religion: He who was seen in the flesh, who was given God's approval in the spirit, was seen by the angels, of whom the good news was given among the nations, in whom the world had faith, who was taken up in glory.
Hebrews 11:27
By faith he went out of Egypt, not being turned from his purpose by fear of the wrath of the king; for he kept on his way, as seeing him who is unseen.
1 John 3:2
My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.
1 John 5:11
And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1 John 5:12
He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.
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Galatians 5:8
This ready belief did not come from him who had made you his.
Hebrews 7:16
That is to say, not made by a law based on the flesh, but by the power of a life without end:
Hebrews 7:18
So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.
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Galatians 3:3
Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh?
Galatians 4:7
So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.
Galatians 4:8
But at that time, having no knowledge of God, you were servants to those who by right are no gods:
Galatians 4:10
You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.
Galatians 5:7
You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?
Colossians 2:8
Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:
Colossians 2:16
For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:
Hebrews 7:17
For it has been witnessed of him, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
Hebrews 7:19
(Because the law made nothing complete), and in its place there is a better hope, through which we come near to God.
Hebrews 9:2
For the first Tent was made ready, having in it the vessels for the lights and the table and the ordering of the bread; and this is named the holy place.
Hebrews 9:9
And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean,
Hebrews 9:10
Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.
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Romans 3:5
But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)?
Romans 9:24
Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?
2 Corinthians 1:13
For in our letters we say no other things to you, but those which you are reading, and to which you give agreement, and, it is my hope, will go on doing so to the end:
Galatians 6:18
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. So be it.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true.
2 Peter 1:4
And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.
1 John 5:18
We are certain that one who is a child of God will do no sin, but the Son of God keeps him so that he is not touched by the Evil One.
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Luke 9:26
For if any man has a feeling of shame because of me or of my words, the Son of man will have shame because of him when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
Romans 5:2
Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 4:13
When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.
2 Thessalonians 1:4
So that we ourselves take pride in you in the churches of God for your untroubled mind and your faith in all the troubles and sorrows which you are going through;
Hebrews 10:34
For you had pity on those who were in prison, and had joy in the loss of your property, in the knowledge that you still had a better property and one which you would keep for ever.
Hebrews 12:2
Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.
1 Peter 1:6
You have cause for great joy in this, though it may have been necessary for you to be troubled for a little time, being tested in all sorts of ways,
1 Peter 1:8
To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:
1 Peter 4:13
But be glad that you are given a part in the pains of Christ; so that at the revelation of his glory you may have great joy.
1 Peter 4:14
If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you.
1 Peter 4:15
Let no one among you undergo punishment as a taker of life, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as one who is over-interested in other men's business;
1 Peter 4:16
But if he undergoes punishment as a Christian, that is no shame to him; let him give glory to God in this name.
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James 1:9
But let the brother of low position be glad that he is lifted up;
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James 1:10
But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.
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Psalms 79:2
They have given the bodies of your servants as food to the birds of the air, and the flesh of your saints to the beasts of the earth.
Ecclesiastes 7:4
The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.
Isaiah 14:19
But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.
Romans 5:1
For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
1 Corinthians 4:9
For it seems to me that God has put us the Apostles last of all, as men whose fate is death: for we are put on view to the world, and to angels, and to men.
1 Corinthians 15:31
Yes, truly, by your pride in me, my brothers in Christ Jesus our Lord, my life is one long death.
2 Thessalonians 3:11
For it has come to our ears that there are some among you whose behaviour is uncontrolled, who do no work at all, but are over-interested in the business of others.
2 Timothy 1:8
Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God;
2 Timothy 1:16
May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus because he frequently gave me help, and had no feeling of shame because I was in chains;
1 Peter 1:5
Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.
1 Peter 1:7
So that the true metal of your faith, being of much greater value than gold (which, though it comes to an end, is tested by fire), may come to light in praise and glory and honour, at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
Revelation 2:10
Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.
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1 Peter 1:13
So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
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Isaiah 49:24
Will the goods of war be taken from the strong man, or the prisoners of the cruel one be let go?
Isaiah 49:25
But the Lord says, Even the prisoners of the strong will be taken from him, and the cruel made to let go his goods: for I will take up your cause against your haters, and I will keep your children safe.
Hebrews 12:6
For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.
Revelation 3:19
To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.
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