2 Corinthians 10:18

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.

He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver. I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

The refining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold, but Yahweh tests the hearts.

even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

For whoever will be ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his glory, and the glory of the Father, and of the holy angels.

Therefore also we make it our aim, whether at home or absent, to be well pleasing to him.

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance;

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

For he was crucified through weakness, yet he lives through the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live with him through the power of God toward you.

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.

Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

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.

In him you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation—in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed; nor anything secret that will not be known and come to light.

But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

Do you look at things only as they appear in front of your face? If anyone trusts in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again with himself, that even as he is Christ’s, so we also are Christ’s.

In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

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.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

The same came to him 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.”

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.

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

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who has a warped mind shall be despised.

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

so that you are not seen by men to be fasting, but by your Father who is in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me.

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.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him among you, even as you yourselves know,

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

Are we beginning again to commend ourselves? Or do we need, as do some, letters of commendation to you or from you?

For we are not commending ourselves to you again, but speak as giving you occasion of boasting on our behalf, that you may have something to answer those who boast in appearance, and not in heart.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

Now I pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.”