Bible verses about "popularity" | Diaglott

⁸ Be you sober, be you watchful; the opponent of you an accuser, like a lion roaring, walks about seeking whom he may gulp down,

⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses, not know you, that the friendship of the world enmity of the God is? whoever therefore may wish a friend to be of the world, an enemy of the God is rendered.

¹ Brethren of me, not with a respect of persons do you hold the faith of the Lord of us Jesus Anointed of the glory. ² If for may enter into the synagogue of you a man having gold ring on his fingers in a robe splendid, may enter and also a poor man in dirty clothing, ³ and you should look on the one wearing the robe the splendid, and you should say: Thou sit here honorably; and to the poor man you should say: Thou stand there, or sit thou here under the footstool of me; ⁴ and not did you make a difference among yourselves and became judges reasonings of evil things? ⁵ Hear you, brethren of me beloved ones, not the God chose the poor of the world rich ones in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to those loving him? ⁶ You but dishonored the poor. Not the rich ones domineer over you, and they drag you into courts of justice? ⁷ Not they revile the honorable name that having been named on you? ⁸ If indeed a law you keep royal, according to the writing: Thou shalt love the neighbor of thee as thyself, well you do. ⁹ If but you respect persons, sin you work, being convicted under the law as transgressors. ¹⁰ Whoever for whole the law keeps, shall fail but in one, has become of all guilty. ¹¹ The for one having said: Not thou mayest commit adultery, said also: Not thou mayest murder; if now not thou commit adultery, thou dost murder but, thou hast become a transgressor of law. ¹² Thus speak you and thus do you, as by means of a law of freedom being about to be judged. ¹³ The for judgment merciless for him not having practised mercy; glories over mercy judgment.

²⁶ Woe, when well you may speak the men; according to these for did to the false-prophets the fathers of them.

² and not conform yourselves to take age this, but transform yourselves by the renovation of the mind of you, in order that to prove you, what the will of the God, the good and well-pleasing and perfect.

⁷ He spoke and to those having been invited a parable, observing how the first reclining places they were choosing out, saying to them: ⁸ When thou mayest be invited by any one to marriage-feasts, not thou mayest recline in the first reclining place; least a more honorable of thee may be having been invited by him; ⁹ and coming he thee and him having invited, shall say to thee: Give thou to this a place; and then thou shouldst begin with shame the farthest place to occupy. ¹⁰ But when thou mayest be invited, having gone recline thou in the farthest place, that when may come he having invited thee, may say to thee: O friend, go thou up to a higher place. Then will be to thee glory in presence of those reclining with thee. ¹¹ For every one the exalting himself, shall be humbled; and the humbling himself shall be exalted. ¹² He said and also to the (one) having invited him: When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, not call the friends of thee, nor the brethren of thee, nor the relations of thee, nor neighbors rich; lest also they thee should invite again, and be made to thee a recompense. ¹³ But when thou mayest make a feast, invite poor ones, maimed ones, lame ones, blind ones; ¹⁴ and blessed thou wilt be, because not they have to recompense to thee; it will be recompensed for to thee in the resurrection of the just.

²⁵ What for is profited a man having won the world whole, himself and having lost, or having forfeited?