1 Samuel 1:18

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants.”

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,

Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.

They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before Yahweh. They are holy for the priest, together with the breast that is waved and the thigh that is offered. After that the Nazirite may drink wine.

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”

Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.

Laban said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake.”

Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

There you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God—you, and your sons, your daughters, your male servants, your female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you.

You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

Her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him and a couple of donkeys. She brought him into her father’s house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

She arose, and bowed herself with her face to the earth, and said, “Behold, your servant is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”

Then the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours.” Ziba said, “I bow down. Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, O king.”

What the wicked fear, will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.

Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

He has put down princes from their thrones, and has exalted the lowly.

“In that day you will ask me no questions. Most certainly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.

but in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

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.

For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

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

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

Having many things to write to you, I don’t want to do so with paper and ink, but I hope to come to you, and to speak face to face, that our joy may be made full.

For all the riches which God has taken away from our father are ours and our children’s. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do.”

I have cattle, donkeys, flocks, male servants, and female servants. I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find favor in your sight.’ ”

Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”

On the eighth day he sent the people away; and they blessed the king, and went to their tents joyful and glad in their hearts for all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David his servant, and to Israel his people.

Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.

When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

He said to her, “For this saying, go your way. The demon has gone out of your daughter.”

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

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.”

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.