2 Samuel 6:22

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “Don’t fear what they fear, neither be troubled.”

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

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

They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

You shall clothe them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them. They shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. You shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, “Who am I, Lord Yahweh, and what is my house, that you have brought me this far?

Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

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

“Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

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.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

and I said, “My God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities have increased over our head, and our guiltiness has grown up to the heavens.

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

They looked to him, and were radiant. Their faces shall never be covered with shame.

The law of his God is in his heart. None of his steps shall slide.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yahweh, his God:

Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.

Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

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

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

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

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.”

He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.

This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

He said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon.”

The keeper of the prison didn’t look after anything that was under his hand, because Yahweh was with him; and that which he did, Yahweh made it prosper.

Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”

Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that Yahweh’s wrath didn’t come on them in the days of Hezekiah.

She shall give birth to a son. You shall name him Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”

and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

God exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins.

They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name.

Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him about Jesus.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,

For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many children to glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Having then a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let’s hold tightly to our confession.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I crossed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.

“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.

“Behold, I am of small account. What will I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

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