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1 Corinthians 9 16-1 Corinthians 9 17
For if I preach the Good News, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me if I don’t preach the Good News.For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
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1 Peter 5 5-1 Peter 5 6
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.”Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time,
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1 Corinthians 15 9-1 Corinthians 15 10
For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.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.
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Romans 3:12
They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”
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Romans 11:35
“ Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”
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Job 35:6-7
If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
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Job 22:2-3
“ Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?
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Isaiah 64:6
For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
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Psalms 35:6-7
Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh’s angel pursuing them.For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
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Matthew 25:30
Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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1 Chronicles 29 14-1 Chronicles 29 16
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from you, and we have given you of your own.For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.Yahweh our God, all this store that we have prepared to build you a house for your holy name comes from your hand, and is all your own.
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Psalms 16:2-3
My soul, you have said to Yahweh,“ You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”As for the saints who are in the earth, they are the excellent ones in whom is all my delight.
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Isaiah 6:5
Then I said,“ Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell among a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!”
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Philippians 3:8-9
Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christand be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,
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Proverbs 16:2-3
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
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Matthew 25:37-40
“ Then the righteous will answer him, saying,‘ Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?’“ 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.’
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Philemon 1:11
who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.