Galatians 2:2
I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
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Galatians 2:2
I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.
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Genesis 8:8
He himself sent out a dove to see if the waters were abated from the surface of the ground,
Proverbs 13:16
Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.
Matthew 15:9
And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”
Acts 17:31
because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”
Galatians 6:3
For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
1 Timothy 1:5
But the goal of this command is love from a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith,
Titus 1:10
For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,
Titus 1:11
whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.
James 1:26
If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.
James 2:20
But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?
2 Peter 2:1
But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.
2 Peter 2:2
Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
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Genesis 21:10
Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”
Genesis 21:11
The thing was very grievous in Abraham’s sight on account of his son.
Genesis 21:12
God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be named through Isaac.
Exodus 18:18
You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.
1 Samuel 8:6
But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
1 Samuel 8:22
Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice, and make them a king.” Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Everyone go to your own city.”
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1 Kings 20:35
A certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his fellow by Yahweh’s word, “Please strike me!” The man refused to strike him.
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Job 39:16
She deals harshly with her young ones, as if they were not hers. Though her labor is in vain, she is without fear,
Psalms 127:1
Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.
Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, isn’t it from Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
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Psalms 117:1
Praise Yahweh, all you nations! Extol him, all you peoples!
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Psalms 37:23
A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.
Proverbs 3:6
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
Acts 9:35
All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.
Acts 26:17
delivering you from the people and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
Romans 9:16
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
Romans 11:14
if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.
Romans 15:16
that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:17
I have therefore my boasting in Christ Jesus in things pertaining to God.
Romans 15:19
in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
1 Timothy 2:7
to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.
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Jeremiah 6:29
The bellows blow fiercely. The lead is consumed in the fire. In vain they go on refining, for the wicked are not plucked away.
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Micah 1:14
Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
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Haggai 1:13
Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.
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Matthew 10:32
Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.
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Matthew 10:33
But whoever denies me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.
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Matthew 20:18
“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death,
Matthew 23:31
Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
John 2:13
The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 5:1
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 7:8
You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”
John 7:10
But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
John 11:55
Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
John 12:20
Now there were certain Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.
Acts 11:2
When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,
Acts 21:15
After these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.
Acts 25:9
But Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and be judged by me there concerning these things?”
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Acts 6:11
Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”
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Acts 11:27
Now in these days, prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.
Acts 11:28
One of them named Agabus stood up and indicated by the Spirit that there should be a great famine all over the world, which also happened in the days of Claudius.
Acts 11:29
As any of the disciples had plenty, each determined to send relief to the brothers who lived in Judea;
Acts 11:30
which they also did, sending it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.
Acts 12:25
Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their service, also taking with them John who was called Mark.
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Acts 15:23
They wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.
Acts 15:25
it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose out men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul,
Acts 15:28
For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
Acts 15:29
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
Acts 16:4
As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.
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Acts 9:29
preaching boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus. He spoke and disputed against the Hellenists, but they were seeking to kill him.
Acts 9:30
When the brothers knew it, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.
Acts 16:10
When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the Good News to them.
Acts 18:10
for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
Acts 22:19
I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
Acts 22:20
When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’
Acts 23:19
The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”
Acts 27:24
saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, Paul. You must stand before Caesar. Behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’
Romans 16:7
Greet Andronicus and Junia, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are notable among the apostles, who were also in Christ before me.
2 Corinthians 8:23
As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.
Galatians 1:17
nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia. Then I returned to Damascus.
Galatians 1:19
But of the other apostles I saw no one except James, the Lord’s brother.
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John 8:15
You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
Acts 13:39
and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
Acts 15:5
But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”
Acts 20:22
Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;
1 Corinthians 1:23
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Greeks,
1 Corinthians 2:2
For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
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 5:11
Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.
2 Corinthians 10:2
Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.
2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;
Galatians 2:15
“We, being Jews by nature and not Gentile sinners,
1 Thessalonians 2:18
because we wanted to come to you—indeed, I, Paul, once and again—but Satan hindered us.
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Acts 9:15
But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
Acts 26:16
But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will reveal to you;
Acts 26:18
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Romans 11:13
For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry,
1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.
Ephesians 3:8
To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
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1 Corinthians 1:10
Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1 Corinthians 3:3
for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
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1 Corinthians 7:24
Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.
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1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
1 Corinthians 9:20
To the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain those who are under the law;
1 Corinthians 9:21
to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law.
1 Corinthians 9:22
To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.
1 Corinthians 9:23
Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.
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1 Corinthians 10:12
Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.
Philippians 1:27
Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
2 Timothy 2:5
Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.
Hebrews 12:4
You have not yet resisted to blood, striving against sin.
Hebrews 12:12
Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,
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1 Corinthians 11:13
Judge for yourselves. Is it appropriate that a woman pray to God unveiled?
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1 Corinthians 14:6
But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?
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.
2 Corinthians 12:5
On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.
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 12:7
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.
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1 Corinthians 15:13
But if there is no resurrection of the dead, neither has Christ been raised.
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1 Corinthians 15:14
If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith also is in vain.
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Matthew 19:28
Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
John 3:2
He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”
John 20:23
If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”
Acts 15:7
When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.
Acts 20:23
except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.
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.
Galatians 1:8
But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.
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.
Galatians 2:11
But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.
2 Timothy 1:12
For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
2 Timothy 2:2
The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
2 Peter 3:15
Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,
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Galatians 3:8
The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”
Galatians 3:14
that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
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Psalms 101:2
I will be careful to live a blameless life. When will you come to me? I will walk within my house with a blameless heart.
Isaiah 55:11
so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.
Acts 5:34
But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.
Acts 9:31
So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 13:3
Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Acts 15:14
Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.
Acts 20:24
But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.
2 Corinthians 1:12
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
Galatians 1:9
As we have said before, so I now say again: if any man preaches to you any “good news” other than that which you received, let him be cursed.
Galatians 4:7
So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
Philippians 3:3
For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
1 Thessalonians 1:5
and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.
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Matthew 16:18
I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
Ephesians 2:20
being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;
Revelation 3:12
He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
Revelation 21:14
The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
Revelation 21:15
He who spoke with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.
Revelation 21:16
The city is square. Its length is as great as its width. He measured the city with the reed: twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, width, and height are equal.
Revelation 21:17
Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.
Revelation 21:18
The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.
Revelation 21:19
The foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire; the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,
Revelation 21:20
the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.
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Matthew 24:11
Many false prophets will arise and will lead many astray.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.
2 Corinthians 11:14
And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.
2 Corinthians 11:15
It is no great thing therefore if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
1 Timothy 1:3
As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,
1 Timothy 1:4
and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith.
1 Timothy 1:6
from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,
1 Timothy 1:7
desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say nor about what they strongly affirm.
1 Timothy 1:19
holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,
1 Timothy 1:20
of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
1 Timothy 6:3
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
2 Timothy 3:8
Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.
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1 Timothy 3:9
holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
2 Timothy 3:9
But they will proceed no further. For their folly will be evident to all men, as theirs also came to be.
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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Acts 13:25
As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’
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.
Galatians 5:3
Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Galatians 5:4
You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.
Titus 1:1
Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,
Philemon 1:8
Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,
Philemon 1:9
yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.
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Matthew 10:22
You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.
Matthew 24:13
But he who endures to the end will be saved.
1 Corinthians 9:27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified.
1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
2 Timothy 4:10
for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.
Hebrews 3:13
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 3:14
For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,
Hebrews 6:15
Thus, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
Hebrews 12:2
looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
James 1:12
Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.
2 John 1:8
Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
Revelation 3:11
I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.
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Ecclesiastes 10:1
Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to produce an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.
Philippians 2:29
Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,
Hebrews 13:7
Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
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.
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