Luke 11:35

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

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

Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but Yahweh weighs the hearts.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

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

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?

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

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.

yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

Yahweh struck the people, because of what they did with the calf, which Aaron made.

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick do.

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said to him, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering into God’s Kingdom before you.

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

But you be strong, and don’t let your hands be slack; for your work will be rewarded.”

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

A righteous person is cautious in friendship, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.

Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

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

Jesus said to him, “See that you tell nobody, but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

But a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all,

for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

What a wretched man I am! Who will deliver me out of the body of this death?

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

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.

For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, you don’t have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.

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

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness,

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

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

As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.

The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes than seven men who answer with discretion.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same?

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;