Ephesians 4:2

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

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

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

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

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

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes! Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him!’ ”

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.

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.”

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

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

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

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

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

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

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

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,

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days,” says the Lord; “I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

With the pure, you will show yourself pure. With the crooked you will show yourself shrewd.

He will guide the humble in justice. He will teach the humble his way.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and I praised and honored him who lives forever; for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom from generation to generation.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

for he has looked at the humble state of his servant. For behold, from now on, all generations will call me blessed.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

“Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”

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

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

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

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

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.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor, than to divide the plunder with the proud.

For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

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

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”

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

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

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

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.

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

whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.