2 Corinthians 10:18
For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
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2 Corinthians 10:18
For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.
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Genesis 18:22
The men turned from there, and went toward Sodom, but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.
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Genesis 41:39
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.
1 Samuel 16:18
Then one of the young men answered and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and Yahweh is with him.”
1 Samuel 18:30
Then the princes of the Philistines went out; and as often as they went out, David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed.
Ecclesiastes 8:1
Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
Luke 12:42
The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
Luke 12:43
Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.
Luke 12:44
Truly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
Luke 16:8
“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
1 Corinthians 3:10
According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.
1 Corinthians 3:11
For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 3:12
But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,
1 Corinthians 3:13
each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.
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Numbers 12:3
Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.
Proverbs 25:14
As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
Jeremiah 9:23
Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
Romans 15:18
For I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,
2 Corinthians 10:1
Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.
2 Corinthians 11:18
Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.
2 Corinthians 11:31
The God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ, he who is blessed forever more, knows that I don’t lie.
2 Corinthians 12:6
For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me or hears from me.
2 Corinthians 12:10
Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
1 Timothy 3:6
not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.
2 Timothy 2:25
in gentleness correcting those who oppose him. Perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
James 5:11
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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1 Samuel 16:7
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 don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
Job 9:20
Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
Job 10:7
Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
Proverbs 20:6
Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?
Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.
Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed by himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men: extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
Luke 18:12
I fast twice a week. I give tithes of all that I get.’
Luke 18:13
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
Romans 4:2
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.
1 Corinthians 4:3
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Yes, I don’t even judge my own self.
1 Corinthians 4:4
For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
James 2:1
My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality.
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2 Chronicles 6:8
But Yahweh said to David my father, ‘Whereas it was in your heart to build a house for my name, you did well that it was in your heart;
Matthew 26:13
Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.”
Mark 14:6
But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.
Mark 14:8
She has done what she could. She has anointed my body beforehand for the burying.
Mark 14:9
Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News may be preached throughout the whole world, that which this woman has done will also be spoken of for a memorial of her.”
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2 Chronicles 31:20
Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.
2 Chronicles 31:21
In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart and prospered.
Acts 8:23
For I see that you are in the poison of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity.”
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Job 42:7
It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
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Job 42:8
Now therefore, take to yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will accept him, that I not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.”
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Psalms 19:13
Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I will be upright. I will be blameless and innocent of great transgression.
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Psalms 51:4
Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
Luke 18:10
“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
Romans 7:9
I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
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Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh; they shall certainly not be unpunished.
Isaiah 10:12
Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.
Isaiah 10:13
For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
Isaiah 10:14
My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”
Isaiah 10:15
Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.
Isaiah 10:16
Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.
Daniel 4:30
The king spoke and said, “Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”
Daniel 4:31
While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.
Daniel 4:32
You shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like oxen. Seven times shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.’ ”
Daniel 4:37
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.
James 4:6
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
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Psalms 4:4
Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
Jeremiah 6:30
Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”
2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
2 Corinthians 13:6
But I hope that you will know that we aren’t disqualified.
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Matthew 7:21
“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.
Matthew 7:22
Many will tell me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, in your name cast out demons, and in your name do many mighty works?’
Matthew 7:23
Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’
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Matthew 23:19
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
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Matthew 25:20
He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents in addition to them.’
Romans 2:15
in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
Philippians 2:29
Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,
1 Timothy 1:12
I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service,
2 Timothy 4:1
I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:
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John 2:11
This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
John 5:31
“If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid.
John 5:32
It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true.
John 5:42
But I know you, that you don’t have God’s love in yourselves.
John 5:43
I have come in my Father’s name, and you don’t receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
John 7:18
He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
John 8:50
But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.
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Psalms 112:6
For he will never be shaken. The righteous will be remembered forever.
Luke 16:10
He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.
Romans 2:10
But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
1 Corinthians 3:14
If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
1 Corinthians 3:15
If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
Galatians 1:1
Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—
1 Thessalonians 5:12
But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
Hebrews 13:17
Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.
1 Peter 1:8
whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,
1 Peter 5:4
When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.
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2 Corinthians 3:2
You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men,
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2 Corinthians 3:3
being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
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2 Corinthians 1:8
For we don’t desire to have you uninformed, brothers, concerning our affliction which happened to us in Asia: that we were weighed down exceedingly, beyond our power, so much that we despaired even of life.
2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;
2 Corinthians 10:8
For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,
2 Corinthians 11:1
I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness, but indeed you do bear with me.
2 Corinthians 13:10
For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.
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Ephesians 4:15
but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ,
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Isaiah 54:17
No weapon that is formed against you will prevail; and you will condemn every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of Yahweh’s servants, and their righteousness is of me,” says Yahweh.
Matthew 6:18
so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
John 12:26
If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.
Colossians 3:22
Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.
Colossians 3:23
And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
Colossians 3:24
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.
1 Peter 2:13
Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme,
1 Peter 3:6
So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are if you do well and are not put in fear by any terror.
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Hebrews 5:4
Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.
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Hebrews 5:5
So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.”
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Jeremiah 9:24
But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.
Luke 6:22
Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
John 15:21
But they will do all these things to you for my name’s sake, because they don’t know him who sent me.
2 Corinthians 4:5
For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,
2 Corinthians 4:11
For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.
2 Corinthians 11:12
But what I do, that I will continue to do, that I may cut off opportunity from those who desire an opportunity, that in which they boast, they may be recognized just like us.
2 Corinthians 11:21
To my shame, I speak as though we had been weak. Yet in whatever way anyone is bold (I speak in foolishness), I am bold also.
2 Corinthians 11:22
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the offspring of Abraham? So am I.
2 Corinthians 11:23
Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
1 Peter 1:24
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
Jude 1:9
But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!”
Revelation 2:3
You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.
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