Deuteronomy 1:12

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

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.

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

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

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.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

You will surely wear away, both you, and this people that is with you; for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to perform it yourself alone.

If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

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.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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.

Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

I spoke to you at that time, saying, “I am not able to bear you myself alone.

Then one of the young men answered, and said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a mighty man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a handsome person; and Yahweh is with him.”

Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, also lifted up his hand against the king.

“ ‘However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant’s sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;

But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.

Now give me wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this great people of yours?”

the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have given strength to the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”

because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

to the one a stench from death to death, to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?

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

But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

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

Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?

Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

Moses said, “Don’t leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you don’t bear it yourself alone.

until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.’ ”

They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall live in his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph shall live in their borders on the north.

Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them. Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah.

She said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” He awoke out of his sleep, and said, “I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free.” But he didn’t know that Yahweh had departed from him.

Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.

For your servant knows that I have sinned. Therefore behold, I have come today as the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”

besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who ruled over the people who labored in the work.

The man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valor; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he put him in charge of all the labor of the house of Joseph.

When God helped the Levites who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

He said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you are to help me; but if the children of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will help you.

Then you will prosper, if you observe to do the statutes and the ordinances which Yahweh gave Moses concerning Israel. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed.

Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, in addition to the free will offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’ ”

My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be listed by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found this written in it:

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

If you, Yah, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?

Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.

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.

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

For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,”

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things: