- For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.
- Let the wicked forsake their way,
and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. - As they came from their mother's womb, so they shall go again, naked as they came; they shall take nothing for their toil, which they may carry away with their hands.
- He was despised and rejected by others;
a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity;
and as one from whom others hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him of no account. - I will make them and the region around my hill a blessing; and I will send down the showers in their season; they shall be showers of blessing.
- The heart is devious above all else;
it is perverse—
who can understand it?
I the Lord test the mind
and search the heart,
to give to all according to their ways,
according to the fruit of their doings. - As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty, or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but rather on God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
- For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.
- For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?
- But even if you do suffer for doing what is right, you are blessed. Do not fear what they fear, and do not be intimidated.
- He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
- You shall not abuse any widow or orphan. If you do abuse them, when they cry out to me, I will surely heed their cry; my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.
- Fools show their anger at once,
but the prudent ignore an insult. - And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, the book of life. And the dead were judged according to their works, as recorded in the books. And the sea gave up the dead that were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and all were judged according to what they had done.
- It is well with those who deal generously and lend,
who conduct their affairs with justice. - The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and wait there; and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.”
- For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
- Those who keep the commandment will live;
those who are heedless of their ways will die. - For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?
- The commandment we have from him is this: those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.
- Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, says the Lord God, and not rather that they should turn from their ways and live?
- Likewise all to whom God gives wealth and possessions and whom he enables to enjoy them, and to accept their lot and find enjoyment in their toil—this is the gift of God.
- Even fools who keep silent are considered wise;
when they close their lips, they are deemed intelligent. - Some take pride in chariots, and some in horses,
but our pride is in the name of the Lord our God. - The integrity of the upright guides them,
but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.
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