Matthew 23:11

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

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.

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.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

For I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name’s sake.”

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

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?

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

We don’t control your faith, but are fellow workers with you for your joy. For you stand firm in faith.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

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.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted. I can’t go into Yahweh’s house.

“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.’

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.

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

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

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. All are yours,

Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.

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.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

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.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

He arose and struck the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand froze to the sword; and Yahweh worked a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to take plunder.

He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, “Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel built. It will no longer be a burden on your shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God, and his people Israel.

But you will be called Yahweh’s priests. Men will call you the servants of our God. You will eat the wealth of the nations. You will boast in their glory.

Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house.

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

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.”

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions wait for me.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”

As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;

When it was determined that we should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan band.

When we entered into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

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

Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

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

For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus may be revealed in our mortal flesh.

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

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.

For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ,

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.