1 Corinthians 4:7

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

John answered, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

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.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him,

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

Yes, Yahweh will give that which is good. Our land will yield its increase.

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Have we no right to take along a wife who is a believer, even as the rest of the apostles, and the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.

‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, “You were likened to a young lion of the nations; yet you are as a monster in the seas. You broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.”

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us: if prophecy, let’s prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

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Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

not of works, that no one would boast.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”

behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

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You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

that no flesh should boast before God.

But against any of the children of Israel a dog won’t even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal, that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

Don’t say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, “For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;” because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.

For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.

Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but we will only acknowledge your name.

Your renown went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

that you may remember, and be confounded, and never open your mouth any more, because of your shame, when I have forgiven you all that you have done,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

Speak and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the middle of his rivers, that has said, ‘My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.’

“You, king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father the kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and majesty.

but have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. You have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which don’t see, or hear, or know; and you have not glorified the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

Then Peter answered, “Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?”

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

He called ten servants of his and gave them ten mina coins, and told them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’

From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.

He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.

What!? Was it from you that the word of God went out? Or did it come to you alone?

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.

But as you abound in everything, in faith, utterance, knowledge, all earnestness, and in your love to us, see that you also abound in this grace.

“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.

Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left.

Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Then he went out and wept bitterly.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,