Bible verses about "vulnerability" | Godbey

²¹ Then Peter, coming to Him, said, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times? ²² Jesus says to him, I say not unto thee, Until seven time; but Until seventy times seven.

³³ Be not deceived: Evil communications corrupt good manners.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, in order that the excellency of the power, may be of God, and not of us;

⁵ Think the same thing among yourselves, which is also in Christ Jesus: ⁶ who, being in the form of God, thought it not usurpation to be equal with God, ⁷ but he humbled himself, having taken the form of a servant, being in the likeness of men; and having been found in fashion like a man; ⁸ he humbled himself, being obedient even unto death, yea, the death of the cross. ⁹ Therefore God has indeed exalted him, and given him a name above every name; ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee must bow, of things in heaven and things upon the earth and things beneath the earth,

² Bear the burdens of one another, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

³⁴ I give unto a new commandment, That you must love one another with divine love; as I have loved you with divine love, that you must also love one another with divine love: ³⁵ in this shall all know that you are my disciples, if you may have divine love one with another.

²⁷ But I say unto you that hear, Love your enemies with divine love, and do good to those that hate you, ²⁸ bless those who curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you. ²⁹ To the one smiting thee on the cheek turn the other also; and from the one taking away thy cloak do not withhold even the coat. ³⁰ Give to every one asking thee, and turn not away from the one taking thy possessions, ³¹ And as you wish that the people may do unto you, do ye unto them even likewise. ³² If you love those who love you, what grace is there to you? for even sinners love those who love them. ³³ And if you may do good to those doing good to you, what grace is there to you? for sinners also do the same. ³⁴ And if you may lend to those from whom you may hope to receive, what grace is there to you? for sinners lend to sinners, that they may receive back the equivalent. ³⁵ Moreover love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest: because He is good to the ungrateful and wicked. ³⁶ Therefore be ye merciful, as your Father is indeed merciful.

¹⁶ Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, in order that you may be healed: the inward working prayer of a righteous man avails much.

¹¹ Our mouth is open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart is enlarged. ¹² Be not straitened in reference to us, but be straitened in your own affections. ¹³ But as I speak to children, you indeed receive this reward.

⁹ And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore most delightfully I will glory the more in my infirmities, in order that the power of Christ may abide on me. ¹⁰ Therefore I delight in infirmities, in insults, in difficulties, in persecutions, and in tight places, for Christ's sake: for when I am without strength, then I am dynamite.

¹ James, the servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the Dispersion, greeting. ² Count it all joy, my brethren, when you may fall into manifold temptations. ³ Knowing that the trial of your faith works out endurance. ⁴ But let endurance have its perfect work, in order that you may be perfect and whole in every part, lacking in nothing. ⁵ But if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all cheerfully and upbraids none; and it will be given unto him. ⁶ But let him ask in faith, doubting as to nothing; for he that doubts is like unto a wave of the sea driven by the winds and tossed by the tempest. ⁷ For let not that man think that he will receive anything from the Lord, ⁸ the double-minded man, the most unstable in all his ways. ⁹ But let the humble brother boast in his exaltation: ¹⁰ and the rich man, in his humility: because as the flower of the grass he will pass away. ¹¹ For the sun with a scorching wind has risen, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell off, and the beauty of its countenance perished: so indeed the rich man will pass away in his ways. ¹² Happy is the man who endures temptation: because, being proved, he will receive a crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him with divine love. ¹³ Let no one being tempted say, I am tempted from God. For God can not be tempted with evils, and he tempts no one: ¹⁴ but each one is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn out, and enticed. ¹⁵ Then the lust, conceiving, brings forth sin; and sin, having been perfected, produces death. ¹⁶ Be not deceived, my beloved brethren. ¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of change. ¹⁸ Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be some first fruit of his creations. ¹⁹ Know, my beloved brethren; but let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow toward wrath: ²⁰ for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of God. ²¹ Therefore having laid aside all filthiness and excess of evil, receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. ²² But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if any one is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a mirror: ²⁴ for he recognized himself, and has gone away, and immediately forgot what kind he was. ²⁵ But the one having looked into the perfect law which is the law of liberty, and having remained in it, not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be happy in his work. ²⁶ But if any one seems to be religious, bridling not his own tongue, but deceiving his own heart, the religion of that man is vain. ²⁷ Pure religion and undefiled with God even the Father is this, to relieve the orphans and widows in their affliction, and keep himself unspotted from the world.