Luke 9:48

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:

For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

He said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”

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

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

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

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.

I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as didn’t worship the beast nor his image, and didn’t receive the mark on their forehead and on their hand. They lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.

The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

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.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

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.

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

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

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

Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.

Most certainly I tell you, among those who are born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptizer; yet he who is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.

Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Whoever receives one such little child in my name receives me,

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

“Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”

Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way.

“For I tell you, among those who are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptizer, yet he who is least in God’s Kingdom is greater than he.”

As many as don’t receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.”

They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem.

Into whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat the things that are set before you.

that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

But glory, honor, and peace go to every man who does good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

But let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position;

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

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

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.