Philippians 1:17

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

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.

I say this not to condemn you, for I have said before that you are in our hearts to die together and live together.

This you know, that all who are in Asia turned away from me, of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.

When they lead you away and deliver you up, don’t be anxious beforehand, or premeditate what you will say, but say whatever will be given you in that hour. For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”

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.”

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants.”

When Jehu came out to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” He said to them, “You know the man and how he talks.”

When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

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

Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.

They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant toward James and John.

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

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

delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,

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

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

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

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?

For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God. Or if we are of sober mind, it is for you.

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.

for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;

It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.

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

Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

However you did well that you shared in my affliction.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

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.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

for Demas left me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia; and Titus to Dalmatia.

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

He who answers before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

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

Settle it therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand how to answer,

“Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?”

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you.”

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,

in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)

But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”

My defense to those who examine me is this:

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.

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,