Hebrews 13:17

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

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

and don’t give place to the devil.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

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

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

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

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

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

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

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

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

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

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

Unless Yahweh builds the house, they who build it labor in vain. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don’t go from house to house.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

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

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.

Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahweh of Armies, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.

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.

He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

He appointed, according to the ordinance of David his father, the divisions of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their offices, to praise and to minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required; the doorkeepers also by their divisions at every gate, for David the man of God had so commanded.

“You shall say this word to them: “ ‘Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.

“As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

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

as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.

“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.

The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against the shepherds. I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep. The shepherds won’t feed themselves any more. I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.”

that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

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.”

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”

Yahweh said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fathers’ house with you shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

Of the children of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the flocks, of all the livestock, and give them to the Levites, who perform the duty of Yahweh’s tabernacle.”

But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No; but we will have a king over us,

So David’s young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him all these words.

neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

Your watchmen lift up their voice. Together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion.

I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

But if you will not hear it, my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eye will weep bitterly, and run down with tears, because Yahweh’s flock has been taken captive.

“Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and tell them, ‘When I bring the sword on a land, and the people of the land take a man from among them, and set him for their watchman;

He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy,

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

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

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

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