Bible verses about "self-pity" | Living_Oracles

³ Happy the poor who repine not; for the kingdom of heaven is theirs!

¹⁹ What! do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God?

¹ James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are in the dispersion: Health. ² My brethren, count it all joy, when you fall into diverse trials; ³ knowing that the proof of your faith works out patience. ⁴ Let patience, therefore, have a perfect effect, that you may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing. ⁵ If any of you be deficient in wisdom, let him ask it of God: who gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not, and it shall be given to him. ⁶ But let him ask in faith, being not at all irresolute: for he who is irresolute, is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. ⁷ Now let not that man think, that he shall receive anything from the Lord. ⁸ A man of two minds, is unstable in all his ways. ⁹ Moreover, let the brother of humble condition glory in his exaltation, ¹⁰ and the rich in his humiliation; for as a garden flower he shall pass away.- ¹¹ For the sun rises with a burning heat, and withers the herb, and its flower falls down, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also shall the rich man fade in his ways. ¹² Blessed is the man who sustains trial, for becoming an approved person, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them who love him. ¹³ Let no one who is tempted say, Certainly I am tempted by God: for God is incapable of being tempted by evil things, and he tempts no one. ¹⁴ But every one is tempted, when he is drawn away, and enticed by his own lust: ¹⁵ then lust having conceived, brings forth sin, and sin, being perfected, brings forth death. ¹⁶ Be not deceived, my beloved brethren; ¹⁷ every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, descended from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, nor shadow of turning. ¹⁸ Of his own will, he begot us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of fruits of his creatures. ¹⁹ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; ²⁰ for the wrath of man works not out the righteousness of God. ²¹ Wherefore, putting away all filthiness, and overflowing of maliciousness, embrace with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. ²² And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves by false reasoning. ²³ For if any one be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man who views his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ for he who looks at himself and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of person he was. ²⁵ But he who looks narrowly into the perfect law of liberty, and perseveres, not becoming a forgetful hearer, but a doer of its work, shall, in so doing, be happy. ²⁶ If any one among you think to be religious, who bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, the religion of this person is vain. ²⁷ Pure religion, and undefiled, with God, even the Father, is this: To take care of orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.

⁷ Therefore, be subject to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

² And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind; that you may approve the will of God, which is good, and acceptable, and perfect.

²⁰ I am crucified together with Christ. Nevertheless, I live; yet not longer I, but Christ lives in me: for the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith which is of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

⁷ Cast all your anxious care on him, because he cares for you.

²⁸ Come to me, all you who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you, and be taught by me; for I am meek and condescending: and your souls shall find relief. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

¹³ No trial has come upon you but such as belongs to man; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tried above what you are able, but will, with the trial, also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear.

² My brethren, count it all joy, when you fall into diverse trials; ³ knowing that the proof of your faith works out patience. ⁴ Let patience, therefore, have a perfect effect, that you may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing. ⁵ If any of you be deficient in wisdom, let him ask it of God: who gives to all men liberally, and upbraids not, and it shall be given to him. ⁶ But let him ask in faith, being not at all irresolute: for he who is irresolute, is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. ⁷ Now let not that man think, that he shall receive anything from the Lord. ⁸ A man of two minds, is unstable in all his ways. ⁹ Moreover, let the brother of humble condition glory in his exaltation, ¹⁰ and the rich in his humiliation; for as a garden flower he shall pass away.- ¹¹ For the sun rises with a burning heat, and withers the herb, and its flower falls down, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also shall the rich man fade in his ways. ¹² Blessed is the man who sustains trial, for becoming an approved person, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them who love him.

⁶ Be anxious about nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

³ and not only so, but we rejoice even in afflictions; knowing that affliction produces patience;