2 Corinthians 11:16
I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
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2 Corinthians 11:16
I say again, let no one think me foolish. But if so, yet receive me as foolish, that I also may boast a little.
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1 Kings 22:11
Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made himself horns of iron, and said, “Yahweh says, ‘With these you will push the Syrians, until they are consumed.’ ”
Proverbs 20:6
Many men claim to be men of unfailing love, but who can find a faithful man?
Proverbs 25:14
As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
2 Peter 2:16
but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A speechless donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet.
2 Peter 2:17
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
2 Peter 2:18
For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
2 Peter 2:19
promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
Jude 1:12
These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Jude 1:13
wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
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Job 12:3
But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?
Job 13:2
What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
Job 15:8
Have you heard the secret counsel of God? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Job 15:9
What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?
Job 34:35
‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’
Job 35:16
therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
Job 37:2
Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth.
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 40:4
“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
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Job 40:5
I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
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Isaiah 28:9
Whom will he teach knowledge? To whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts?
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Proverbs 27:1
Don’t boast about tomorrow; for you don’t know what a day may bring.
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.
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 12:20
“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
1 Corinthians 15:36
You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
2 Corinthians 10:17
But “he who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
Ephesians 5:17
Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
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Mark 9:2
After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John, and brought them up onto a high mountain privately by themselves, and he was changed into another form in front of them.
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Matthew 10:14
Whoever doesn’t receive you or hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.
Matthew 10:40
“He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.
Luke 10:8
Into whatever city you enter and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.
2 Corinthians 7:15
His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.
Philippians 2:29
Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,
Colossians 4:10
Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received instructions, “if he comes to you, receive him”),
Philemon 1:12
I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,
Philemon 1:17
If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.
2 John 1:10
If anyone comes to you and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,
3 John 1:8
We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.
3 John 1:9
I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.
3 John 1:10
Therefore, if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, he doesn’t receive the brothers himself, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.
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Luke 14:11
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
Luke 18:10
“Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
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!’
Luke 18:14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
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1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?
1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.
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.
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Proverbs 26:5
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
1 Corinthians 1:21
For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
1 Corinthians 3:18
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 8:2
But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn’t yet know as he ought to know.
2 Corinthians 11:4
For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news” which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.
2 Corinthians 11:5
For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
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1 Corinthians 9:17
For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
1 Corinthians 9:18
What then is my reward? That when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.
2 Corinthians 7:2
Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.
2 Corinthians 11:8
I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
2 Corinthians 11:10
As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
2 Corinthians 12:13
For what is there in which you were made inferior to the rest of the assemblies, unless it is that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
Philippians 4:11
Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
Philippians 4:17
Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
1 Timothy 3:3
not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;
Titus 1:7
For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;
1 Peter 5:2
shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily; not for dishonest gain, but willingly;
Jude 1:11
Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.
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2 Corinthians 5:3
if indeed being clothed, we will not be found naked.
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2 Corinthians 10:7
Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.
2 Corinthians 10:9
that I may not seem as if I desire to terrify you by my letters.
2 Corinthians 10:11
Let such a person consider this, that what we are in word by letters when we are absent, such are we also in deed when we are present.
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1 Corinthians 4:11
Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
1 Corinthians 4:12
We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
1 Corinthians 4:13
Being defamed, we entreat. We are made as the filth of the world, the dirt wiped off by all, even until now.
2 Corinthians 11:24
Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.
2 Corinthians 11:25
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
2 Corinthians 11:26
I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
2 Corinthians 11:27
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians 11:28
Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.
2 Corinthians 11:29
Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?
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Malachi 1:10
“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
Acts 20:33
I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.
Acts 20:34
You yourselves know that these hands served my necessities, and those who were with me.
1 Corinthians 9:12
If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.
1 Corinthians 9:13
Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
1 Corinthians 9:14
Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the Good News should live from the Good News.
1 Corinthians 9:16
For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.
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.
1 Thessalonians 2:6
nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:10
You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
2 Peter 2:3
In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.
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2 Corinthians 12:2
I know a man in Christ who was caught up into the third heaven fourteen years ago—whether in the body, I don’t know, or whether out of the body, I don’t know; God knows.
2 Corinthians 12:3
I know such a man (whether in the body, or outside of the body, I don’t know; God knows),
2 Corinthians 12:4
how he was caught up into Paradise and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
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Proverbs 25:27
It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it honorable to seek one’s own honor.
2 Corinthians 1:6
But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.
2 Corinthians 1:14
as also you acknowledged us in part—that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
2 Corinthians 1:17
When I therefore planned this, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be the “Yes, yes” and the “No, no?”
2 Corinthians 3:1
Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?
2 Corinthians 7:8
For though I grieved you with my letter, I do not regret it, though I did regret it. For I see that my letter made you grieve, though just for a while.
2 Corinthians 8:2
how in a severe ordeal of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity.
2 Corinthians 10:12
For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.
2 Corinthians 10:15
not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
2 Corinthians 12:7
By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
2 Corinthians 12:8
Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.
2 Corinthians 12:9
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on 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.
Galatians 4:14
That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.
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Acts 26:24
As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”
Acts 26:25
But he said, “I am not crazy, most excellent Festus, but boldly declare words of truth and reasonableness.
1 Thessalonians 2:3
For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
1 Thessalonians 2:4
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak—not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
1 Thessalonians 2:8
Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.
1 Thessalonians 2:9
For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
1 Thessalonians 2:11
As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
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Revelation 12:15
The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.
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