- Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vanity, but humbly regard others as better than yourselves.
- No one should seek his own advantage in preference to that of his neighbor.
- Love is patient;
love is charitable.
Love is not envious;
it does not have an inflated opinion of itself;
it is not filled with its own importance.
Love is never rude;
it does not seek its own advantage.
It is not prone to anger;
neither does it brood over setbacks. - For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disharmony and every type of wickedness.
- A generous person will be enriched;
he who refreshes others will also be refreshed. - Each of us must consider his neighbor’s good for the purpose of building him up.
- A fool takes no pleasure in understanding
but only delights in expressing his own opinions. - The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.
- Let no one delude himself. If anyone among you considers himself to be wise by worldly standards, he must become a fool in order to be truly wise.
- Dispose my heart to follow your statutes
and to flee selfish gain. - And now it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. The life I live now in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.
- As for me, I do not regard my life as of any value, only that I finish the race and complete the mission that I received from the Lord Jesus—to bear witness to the gospel of God’s grace.
- He then called the people and his disciples to him and said to them, “Anyone who wishes to follow me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.”
I stretch out my hands to you;
my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah You are a place of refuge for me;
you preserve me from trouble
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