Mark 9:39

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

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.

Jesus said to him, “Don’t forbid him, for he who is not against us is for us.”

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.

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.

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

put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

“When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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

Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.

“ ‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;

his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

The king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” The Cushite answered, “May the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you to do you harm, be as that young man is.”

Micaiah said, “If you return at all in peace, Yahweh has not spoken by me.” He said, “Listen, all you people!”

To whom have you uttered words? Whose spirit came out of you?

Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.

But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

This is the reward of my adversaries from Yahweh, of those who speak evil against my soul.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn’t come to rest.

Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”

I ate no pleasant bread. No meat or wine came into my mouth. I didn’t anoint myself at all, until three whole weeks were fulfilled.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”

He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

“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.

He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having your two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire,

those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

But they didn’t understand this saying. It was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”

He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine, and will declare it to you.

You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

What then? Are we better than they? No, in no way. For we previously warned both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!

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

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,

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 we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you any “good news” other than that which we preached to you, let him be cursed.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”

What does it matter? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed. I rejoice in this, yes, and will rejoice.

if by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet