Bible verses about "cliques" | Godbey

¹ There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. ² For the law of the Spirit of life has made thee free from the law of sin and of death. ³ For there was an impotency of the law, in which it was weak through depravity, God having sent his own Son in the likeness of the sin of depravity and for sin, condemned sin in depravity: ⁴ in order that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to depravity, but according to the spirit. ⁵ For those being in harmony with depravity, do mind the things of depravity, and those in harmony with the Spirit, the things of the Spirit: ⁶ for the mind of depravity is death: and the mind of the Spirit is life and peace. ⁷ Therefore the mind of depravity is enmity toward God: for it is not subordinated to the law of God, for it is not able so to be. ⁸ But those being in depravity are not able to please God. ⁹ But ye are not in depravity, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any one has not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, the body is dead so far as sin is concerned; but the Spirit is life so far as righteousness is concerned. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one having raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also create life in your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who dwells in you. ¹² Then therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to depravity, to live according to depravity. ¹³ For if you live according to depravity, you are about to die: but if through the Spirit you kill the practices of the body, you shall live. ¹⁴ For so many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. ¹⁵ For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again unto fear; but you received the Spirit of adoption, in which we cry; Father, Father. ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself witnesses along with our spirit, that we are the children of God. ¹⁷ And if children, indeed heirs; truly heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if we suffer together, in order that we may also be glorified together. ¹⁸ For I reckon that the sufferings of these present times are not worthy to be compared to the glory which is about to be revealed in us. ¹⁹ For the earnest expectation of the creature awaits the revelation of the sons of God. ²⁰ For the creature has been subordinated to mortality, not willingly, but through Him who subordinated it; ²¹ therefore indeed pursuant to hope, the creature itself shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. ²² For we know that all creation groans together and travails together until now; ²³ and not only so, but we ourselves, having the earnest of the Spirit, and we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of sons, the redemption of our body. ²⁴ For we are saved by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for why does any one indeed hope for that which he sees? ²⁵ But if we hope for that which we do not see, we wait for it with patience. ²⁶ And likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmity. For we know not what we should pray for as it behooves us: but the Spirit himself makes intercession with unutterable groanings: ²⁷ but he that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession towards God in behalf of the saints. ²⁸ But we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose. ²⁹ Because whom he did foreknow, he did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: ³⁰ and whom He did foreknow, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them He also glorified. ³¹ Then what shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² Indeed he who spared not his own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He not with him, freely give us all things? ³³ Who will lay anything to the charge of God's elect? ³⁴ It is God who justifies: who is he that condemns? It is Christ who died, and rather who is risen, who is on the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding in our behalf. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ As has been written, that We are killed all day for thy sake; we are counted as sheep of the slaughter. ³⁷ But in all these we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. ³⁸ For I am persuaded that, neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹ nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁶ Have the same mind toward one another, not thinking high things, but condescending to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

³ For the time will come when they will not endure healthy teaching; but according to their own lusts they will heap to themselves teachers itching as to their hearing;

¹ Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and His disciples, ² saying, The scribes and Pharisees sat upon the seat of Moses; ³ therefore do and keep all things so many as they may speak to you, but do not according to their works; for they say, and do not. ⁴ But they bind heavy burdens, and place them on the shoulders of the people; and they themselves are not willing to touch them with their finger. ⁵ And they do all their works to be seen by the people: for they broaden their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, ⁶ and they love the first couch at the suppers, and the first seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and salutations in the forums, and to be called by the people, "Doctor." ⁸ But be ye not called Doctor: for One is your teacher; and you are all brothers. ⁹ And call no man father upon the earth: for One is your Heavenly Father. ¹⁰ Be not called teachers: because One is your teacher, Christ. ¹¹ And the great of you shall be your deacon. ¹² But whosoever shall exalt himself, shall be abased; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be exalted. ¹³ But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens against the people: for you do not go in, neither do you permit those coming in to enter. ¹⁴ OMITTED TEXT ¹⁵ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you compass the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when it may be done, you make him twofold more the son of hell than yourselves. ¹⁶ Woe unto you, blind guides, who are saying, Whosoever may swear by the temple it is nothing; but whosoever may swear by the gold of the temple, he is debtor. ¹⁷ Ye fools and blind: for which is the greater, the gold, or the temple sanctifying the gold? ¹⁸ And, Whosoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever may swear by the gift upon it, is debtor. ¹⁹ Ye blind: for which is the greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift? ²⁰ Therefore the one swearing by the altar, swears by it, and by all things which are on it. ²¹ And the one swearing by the temple, swears by it, and by Him who inhabited it. ²² And the one swearing by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by Him that sitteth upon it. ²³ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you tithe mint and anise and cummin, and pass by the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: it behooves to do these and not to neglect those. ²⁴ Ye blind guides, who strain out the gnat, and swallow down the camel. ²⁵ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you purify the exterior of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of extortion and impurity. ²⁶ Ye blind Pharisee, first purify the inside of the cup, in order that its outside may be clean. ²⁷ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you are like whitened sepulchers, which are beautiful indeed externally, but within they are full of the hones of the dead people, and every impurity. ²⁸ So you also appear unto the people indeed righteous, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. ²⁹ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and ornament the sepulchers of the righteous, ³⁰ and you say, If we were in the days of our fathers we would not have been their fellow-partakers in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ So you witness to yourselves, that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³² And you fill up the measure of your fathers. ³³ Ye serpents, generations of vipers, how can you escape from the judgment of hell? ³⁴ Therefore I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: you will kill and crucify some of them; and will scourge some of them in your synagogues, and will persecute them from city to city; ³⁵ in order that all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah the son of the blessed, whom they slew between the temple and the altar, may come upon you. ³⁶ Truly I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation. ³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that have been sent unto thee! how frequently did I wish to gather together thy children, in the manner in which a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but ye were not willing! ³⁸ Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. ³⁹ For I say unto you, that ye can see me no more until you can say; Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord.

¹ My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect to persons. ² For if a gold-ringed man may come into your synagogue, in shining apparel, and a poor man may also come in with soiled clothing; ³ and you may look upon the one wearing the shining garment, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and may say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit down beneath my footstool: ⁴ are you not condemned among yourselves, and have you not become the judges of evil reasonings? ⁵ Hear, my beloved brethren. Has not God chosen the poor in the world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him with divine love? ⁶ You have dishonored the poor. Do not the rich domineer over you, and drag you into courts? ⁷ Do they not blaspheme the good name which has been called upon you? ⁸ If indeed you keep the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor with divine love as thyself, you do well. ⁹ But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. ¹⁰ For whosoever may keep the whole law, and fail in one item, has become guilty of all. ¹¹ For the one saying, Thou shalt not commit adultery also said, Thou shalt not murder; but if you do not commit adultery, but murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. ¹² So you say, and so you do, as about to be condemned by the law of liberty. ¹³ For judgment is without mercy to him that shows no mercy; but mercy glorieth against judgment.

¹⁰ But I exhort you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you may all speak the same things, and that there may be no schisms among you; but you may be perfected in the same mind and in the same disposition.