Bible verses about "entitlement" | Darby

¹⁰⁵ NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

¹⁶ Behold, *I* send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore prudent as the serpents, and guileless as the doves.

⁷ And he spoke a parable to those that were invited, remarking how they chose out the first places, saying to them, ⁸ When thou art invited by any one to a wedding, do not lay thyself down in the first place at table, lest perhaps a more honourable than thou be invited by him, ⁹ and he who invited thee and him come and say to thee, Give place to this [man], and then thou begin with shame to take the last place. ¹⁰ But when thou hast been invited, go and put thyself down in the last place, that when he who has invited thee comes, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have honour before all that are lying at table with thee; ¹¹ for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that abases himself shall be exalted.

¹ Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, ² saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have set themselves down in Moses` seat: ³ all things therefore, whatever they may tell you, do and keep. But do not after their works, for they say and do not, ⁴ but bind burdens heavy and hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of men, but will not move them with their finger. ⁵ And all their works they do to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders [of their garments], ⁶ and love the chief place in feasts and the first seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and salutations in the market-places, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. ⁸ But *ye*, be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your instructor, and all *ye* are brethren. ⁹ And call not [any one] your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, he who is in the heavens. ¹⁰ Neither be called instructors, for one is your instructor, the Christ. ¹¹ But the greatest of you shall be your servant. ¹² And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted. ¹³ But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for *ye* do not enter, nor do ye suffer those that are entering to go in.

¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye compass the sea and the dry [land] to make one proselyte, and when he is become [such], ye make him twofold more [the] son of hell than yourselves. ¹⁶ Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor. ¹⁷ Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold? ¹⁸ And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor. ¹⁹ [Fools and] blind ones, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift? ²⁰ He therefore that swears by the altar swears by it and by all things that are upon it. ²¹ And he that swears by the temple swears by it and by him that dwells in it. ²² And he that swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him that sits upon it. ²³ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith: these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside. ²⁴ Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the camel. ²⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become clean. ²⁷ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men`s bones and all uncleanness. ²⁸ Thus also *ye*, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. ²⁹ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the just, ³⁰ and ye say, If we had been in the days of our fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ So that ye bear witness of yourselves that ye are sons of those who slew the prophets: ³² and *ye*, fill ye up the measure of your fathers. ³³ Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell? ³⁴ Therefore, behold, *I* send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and [some] of them ye will kill and crucify, and [some] of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city; ³⁵ so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. ³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, [the city] that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! ³⁸ Behold, your house is left unto you desolate; ³⁹ for I say unto you, Ye shall in no wise see me henceforth until ye say, Blessed [be] he that comes in the name of [the] Lord.

¹ Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be made like to ten virgins that having taken their torches, went forth to meet the bridegroom. ² And five of them were prudent and five foolish. ³ They that were foolish took their torches and did not take oil with them; ⁴ but the prudent took oil in their vessels with their torches. ⁵ Now the bridegroom tarrying, they all grew heavy and slept. ⁶ But in [the] middle of [the] night there was a cry, Behold, the bridegroom; go forth to meet him. ⁷ Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their torches. ⁸ And the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil, for our torches are going out. ⁹ But the prudent answered saying, [We cannot,] lest it might not suffice for us and for you. Go rather to those that sell, and buy for yourselves. ¹⁰ But as they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and the [ones that were] ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut. ¹¹ Afterwards come also the rest of the virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us; ¹² but he answering said, Verily I say unto you, I do not know you. ¹³ Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour. ¹⁴ For [it is] as [if] a man going away out of a country called his own bondmen and delivered to them his substance. ¹⁵ And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to each according to his particular ability, and immediately went away out of the country. ¹⁶ And he that had received the five talents went and trafficked with them, and made five other talents. ¹⁷ In like manner also he that [had received] the two, [he also] gained two others. ¹⁸ But he that had received the one went and dug in the earth, and hid the money of his lord. ¹⁹ And after a long time the lord of those bondmen comes and reckons with them. ²⁰ And he that had received the five talents came to [him] and brought five other talents, saying, [My] lord, thou deliveredst me five talents; behold, I have gained five other talents besides them. ²¹ His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman, thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things: enter into the joy of thy lord. ²² And he also that had received the two talents came to [him] and said, [My] lord, thou deliveredst me two talents; behold, I have gained two other talents besides them. ²³ His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful bondman, thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. ²⁴ And he also that had received the one talent coming to [him] said, [My] lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hadst not sowed, and gathering from where thou hadst not scattered, ²⁵ and being afraid I went away and hid thy talent in the earth; behold, thou hast that which is thine. ²⁶ And his lord answering said to him, Wicked and slothful bondman, thou knewest that I reap where I had not sowed, and gather from where I had not scattered; ²⁷ thou oughtest then to have put my money to the money-changers, and when I came I should have got what is mine with interest. ²⁸ Take therefore the talent from him, and give it to him that has the ten talents: ²⁹ for to every one that has shall be given, and he shall be in abundance; but from him that has not, that even which he has shall be taken from him. ³⁰ And cast out the useless bondman into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. ³¹ But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit down upon his throne of glory, ³² and all the nations shall be gathered before him; and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; ³³ and he will set the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on [his] left. ³⁴ Then shall the King say to those on his right hand, Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from [the] world`s foundation: ³⁵ for I hungered, and ye gave me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; ³⁶ naked, and ye clothed me; I was ill, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came to me. ³⁷ Then shall the righteous answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and nourished thee; or thirsting, and gave thee to drink? ³⁸ and when saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in; or naked, and clothed thee? ³⁹ and when saw we thee ill, or in prison, and came to thee? ⁴⁰ And the King answering shall say to them, Verily, I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it to me. ⁴¹ Then shall he say also to those on the left, Go from me, cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: ⁴² for I hungered, and ye gave me not to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave me not to drink; ⁴³ I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye did not clothe me; ill, and in prison, and ye did not visit me. ⁴⁴ Then shall *they* also answer saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, or thirsting, or a stranger, or naked, or ill, or in prison, and have not ministered to thee? ⁴⁵ Then shall he answer them saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye have not done it to one of these least, neither have ye done it to me. ⁴⁶ And these shall go away into eternal punishment, and the righteous into life eternal.

¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Vengeance [belongs] to me, *I* will recompense, saith the Lord.

¹⁶ And *we* have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

¹ A wise son [heareth] his father`s instruction; but a scorner heareth not rebuke. <sup>2</sup> A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth; but the soul of the treacherous, violence. <sup>3</sup> He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his soul; destruction shall be to him that openeth wide his lips. <sup>4</sup> A sluggard`s soul desireth and hath nothing; but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. ⁵ A righteous [man] hateth lying; but the wicked maketh himself odious and cometh to shame. ⁶ Righteousness preserveth him that is perfect in the way; but wickedness overthroweth the sinner. ⁷ There is that feigneth himself rich, and hath nothing; there is that maketh himself poor, and hath great wealth. ⁸ The ransom of a man`s life is his riches; but the indigent heareth not rebuke. <sup>9</sup> The light of the righteous rejoiceth; but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out. <sup>10</sup> By pride there only cometh contention; but with the well-advised is wisdom. <sup>11</sup> Wealth [gotten] by vanity diminisheth; but he that gathereth by manual-labour shall increase [it]. <sup>12</sup> Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; but the desire [that] cometh to pass is a tree of life. <sup>13</sup> Whoso despiseth the word shall be held by it; but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. <sup>14</sup> The teaching of the wise [man] is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death. <sup>15</sup> Good understanding procureth favour; but the way of the treacherous is hard. <sup>16</sup> Every prudent [man] acteth with knowledge; but the foolish layeth open [his] folly. <sup>17</sup> A wicked messenger falleth into evil; but a faithful ambassador is health. <sup>18</sup> Poverty and shame shall be [to] him that refuseth instruction; but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured. <sup>19</sup> The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul; but it is abomination to the foolish to depart from evil. <sup>20</sup> He that walketh with wise [men] becometh wise; but a companion of the foolish will be depraved. <sup>21</sup> Evil pursueth sinners; but to the righteous good shall be repaid. <sup>22</sup> A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children`s children; but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous [man]. ²³ Much food is in the tillage of the poor; but there is that is lost for want of judgment. ²⁴ He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. ²⁵ The righteous eateth to the satisfying of his soul; but the belly of the wicked shall want.

¹ For the kingdom of the heavens is like a householder who went out with the early morn to hire workmen for his vineyard. ² And having agreed with the workmen for a denarius the day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³ And having gone out about [the] third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle; ⁴ and to them he said, Go also ye into the vineyard, and whatsoever may be just I will give you. And they went their way. ⁵ Again, having gone out about the sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise. ⁶ But about the eleventh [hour], having gone out, he found others standing, and says to them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? ⁷ They say to him, Because no man has hired us. He says to them, Go also ye into the vineyard [and whatsoever may be just ye shall receive]. ⁸ But when the evening was come, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the workmen and pay [them] their wages, beginning from the last even to the first. ⁹ And when they [who came to work] about the eleventh hour came, they received each a denarius. ¹⁰ And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more, and they received also themselves each a denarius. ¹¹ And on receiving it they murmured against the master of the house, ¹² saying, These last have worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the heat. ¹³ But he answering said to one of them, [My] friend, I do not wrong thee. Didst thou not agree with me for a denarius? ¹⁴ Take what is thine and go. But it is my will to give to this last even as to thee: ¹⁵ is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine eye evil because *I* am good? ¹⁶ Thus shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called ones, but few chosen ones.

¹⁸ [The] Spirit of [the] Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to [the] poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to [the] blind sight, to send forth [the] crushed delivered,

⁸ But if any one does not provide for his own, and specially for those of [his] house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbeliever.

¹ *I*, the prisoner in [the] Lord, exhort you therefore to walk worthy of the calling wherewith ye have been called, ² with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, bearing with one another in love; ³ using diligence to keep the unity of the Spirit in the uniting bond of peace. ⁴ [There is] one body and one Spirit, as ye have been also called in one hope of your calling; ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism; ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all. ⁷ But to each one of us has been given grace according to the measure of the gift of the Christ. ⁸ Wherefore he says, Having ascended up on high, he has led captivity captive, and has given gifts to men. ⁹ But that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He that descended is the same who has also ascended up above all the heavens, that he might fill all things; ¹¹ and *he* has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers, ¹² for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to [the] work of [the] ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of Christ; ¹³ until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at [the] full-grown man, at [the] measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ; ¹⁴ in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of *that* teaching [which is] in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error; ¹⁵ but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ: ¹⁶ from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by every joint of supply, according to [the] working in [its] measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the body to its self-building up in love. ¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify in [the] Lord, that ye should no longer walk as [the rest of] the nations walk in [the] vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts, ¹⁹ who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust. ²⁰ But *ye* have not thus learnt the Christ, ²¹ if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as [the] truth is in Jesus; ²² [namely] your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts; ²³ and being renewed in the spirit of your mind; ²⁴ and [your] having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness. ²⁵ Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another. ²⁶ Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your wrath, ²⁷ neither give room for the devil. ²⁸ Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with [his] hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need. ²⁹ Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if [there be] any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear [it]. ³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for [the] day of redemption. ³¹ Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice; ³² and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

¹² Now such we enjoin and exhort in [the] Lord Jesus Christ, that working quietly they eat their own bread.

⁶ But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] lowly.

¹⁰ For also when we were with you we enjoined you this, that if any man does not like to work, neither let him eat.

¹ Whence [come] wars and whence fightings among you? [Is it] not thence, -- from your pleasures, which war in your members? ² Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not. ³ Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask evilly, that ye may consume [it] in your pleasures. ⁴ Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be [the] friend of the world is constituted enemy of God. ⁵ Think ye that the scripture speaks in vain? Does the Spirit which has taken his abode in us desire enviously? ⁶ But he gives more grace. Wherefore he says, God sets himself against [the] proud, but gives grace to [the] lowly. ⁷ Subject yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, sinners, and purify [your] hearts, ye double-minded. ⁹ Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he shall exalt you. ¹¹ Speak not against one another, brethren. He that speaks against [his] brother, or judges his brother, speaks against [the] law and judges [the] law. But if thou judgest [the] law, thou art not doer of [the] law, but judge. ¹² One is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who art *thou* who judgest thy neighbour?