Job 15:9

For nothing spoken by God is impossible.”

What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to 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.

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

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,

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

Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”

If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring and heirs according to promise.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

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.”

Isn’t it that I have no help in me, That wisdom is driven quite from me?

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn’t know such things as these?

Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.

For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you will not exalt them.

But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

It is not the great who are wise, nor the aged who understand justice.

“If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.

‘Job speaks without knowledge. His words are without wisdom.’

Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, the sound that goes out of his mouth.

Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

Then you shall return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him who serves God and him who doesn’t serve him.

Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,

But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ’s, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

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.

Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

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

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ’s, at his coming.

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.

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.

For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we didn’t preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you didn’t receive, or a different “good news”, which you didn’t accept, you put up with that well enough.

For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.

Seeing that many boast after the flesh, I will also boast.

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.

seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

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.