Bible verses about "entitlement" | Godbey

¹⁶ Behold, I send you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

⁷ And He spoke a parable to those whom He had called, warning them that they should not choose the first couches; saying to them, ⁸ When you may be called by any one to a marriage feast, do not sit down upon the first couch; lest one more worthy than thee may have been called by him, ⁹ and the one having called thee and him, having come in shall say to thee, Give place to him; and then thou shalt with shame begin to take the last place. ¹⁰ But when you may be invited, coming in sit down in the last place; in order that when the one having invited thee may come, he will say to thee, Friend, come up higher: then there will be glory to thee in the presence of all those sitting along with thee. ¹¹ Because every one who shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

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 Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened unto ten virgins, who taking their lamps, went out to meet the bridegroom. ² And five of them were foolish, and five were wise. ³ For the foolish, taking their lamps, took no oil with themselves: ⁴ and the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. ⁵ But the bridegroom tarrying, they all nodded and slept. ⁶ And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom! go ye out to meet him. ⁷ Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. ⁸ And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are going out. ⁹ And the wise responded, saying, No, lest there may not be a sufficiency for us and you: go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. ¹⁰ And they going to buy, the bridegroom came; and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door was shut. ¹¹ And afterwards the other virgins come, saying; Lord, lord, open unto us. ¹² And he responding, said; Truly I say unto you, I know you not. ¹³ Watch therefore, because you know neither the day nor the hour. ¹⁴ For as a man going away, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods, ¹⁵ to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each one according to his own ability; and departed. ¹⁶ The one having received the five talents going immediately, operated with the same, and made other five talents. ¹⁷ Likewise the one having received two gained two others. ¹⁸ And he having received one, having gone away, digged up the earth, and buried the money belonging to his lord. ¹⁹ And after a long time the lord of those servants comes, and makes a reckoning with them. ²⁰ And the one having received the five talents coming to him brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou didst deliver unto me five talents: behold, I have gained other five talents. ²¹ His lord said to him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou wast faithful over few things, and I will make thee ruler over many things: come thou into the joy of thy lord. ²² And the one having received two talents, coming to him, said, Lord, thou didst deliver unto me two talents: behold, I have gained other two talents. ²³ And his lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou wast faithful over few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: come thou into the joy of thy lord. ²⁴ And the one having received one talent also coming, said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strewn: ²⁵ and being afraid, having gone away, I hid thy talent in the earth: behold, thou hast thine own. ²⁶ And his Lord responding said to him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, didst thou know that I gather where I have not sown, and reap where I have not strewn? ²⁷ Therefore it behooved thee to put my money in the bank, and having come, I would receive my own with the product. ²⁸ Therefore take the talent from him, and give it to the one having ten talents. ²⁹ For to every one having it shall be given, and he shall superabound: but from the one not having shall be taken away even that which he has. ³⁰ And cast ye the unprofitable servant into the darkness which is without: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth. ³¹ But when the Son of min may come in His glory, and all His angels with Him, then will He sit upon the throne of His glory: ³² and all nations shall be gathered before Him: and He will separate them from one another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats: ³³ and He will place the sheep on His right, and the goats on His left. ³⁴ Then the King will say to those on His right, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom which has been prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry, and you gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me drink: I was a stranger, and you took me in; ³⁶ was naked, and ye clothed me: was sick, and ye visited me: was in prison, and ye came unto me. ³⁷ Then the righteous will respond to Him, saying; Lord, when saw we thee then hungry, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? ³⁸ And when saw we thee then a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? ³⁹ But when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? ⁴⁰ And the King responding will say unto them, Truly I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did these things to one of the least of these my brethren, you did them unto me. ⁴¹ Then will He also say unto those on the left, Depart from me, ye cursed, into eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels. ⁴² For I was hungry, and you gave me nothing to eat: I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink: ⁴³ I was a stranger and you took me not in; was naked, and you clothed me not; was sick, and in prison, and you visited me not. ⁴⁴ Then will they also respond, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and ministered not unto thee? ⁴⁵ Then will He respond to them, saying, Truly I say unto you, Inasmuch as you did not these things to one of the least of these, you did them not unto me. ⁴⁶ And these shall go away into eternal punishment: and the righteous into eternal life.

¹⁹ avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it has been written, Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.

¹⁶ And we have known and we have believed the divine love which God has in us. God is divine love; and the one abiding in divine love abides in God, and God abides in him.

¹ For the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a landlord man, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. ² And having agreed with the laborers for a denarion per day, sent them into his vineyard. ³ And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the forum: ⁴ and he said to them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they departed. ⁵ Again having gone out about the sixth and ninth hours, he did likewise. ⁶ And about the eleventh hour having gone out, he found others standing; and says to them, Why stand ye here idle all the day? ⁷ They say to him, Because no one hired us. He says to them, Go ye also into the vineyard. ⁸ And it being evening, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last even unto the first. ⁹ And those having come about the eleventh hour, received each man a denarion. ¹⁰ But the first having come supposed that they shall receive more; and themselves also received each one a denarion. ¹¹ But receiving it, they murmured against the landlord, ¹² saying, These labored one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, who bore the burden of the day and the heat. ¹³ But he responding said to one of them, Comrade, I do thee no wrong; didst thou not agree with me for a denarion? ¹⁴ Take thine own, and go. I wish to give unto this last one, even as unto thee. ¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do as I wish with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? ¹⁶ So the last shall be first, and first last.

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor: hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and sight to the blind, and to set at liberty them that are bruised,

⁸ But if any one provides not for his own, and especially those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

¹ Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the calling with which you are called, ² with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in divine love; ³ endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. ⁴ There is one body and one Spirit, as ye indeed are called in one hope of your calling; ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism, ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and above you all, and in all. ⁷ And to each one of you grace is given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. ⁸ Therefore he says, Having ascended upon high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to the people. ⁹ But what is that which ascended, except that which descended into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ But the one having descended and the one having ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill all things, is the same. ¹¹ And he gave some, apostles; some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; ¹² unto the perfection of the saints, in the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ: ¹³ until we may all come into the unity of the faith, and of the perfect knowledge of the Son of God, into a perfect man, into the measure of the likeness of the fulness of Christ: ¹⁴ in order that we may be no longer infants, tossed by the waves and carried about by every wind of teaching, in the caprice of the people, in their craftiness, pursuant to their method of delusion; ¹⁵ but speaking the truth in divine love, let its grow up in him in all things, who is the head, Christ; ¹⁶ from whom the whole body, being assimilated and knitted together through every joint of the supply, according to the working in each several part, makes increase of the body in the edification of itself in divine love. ¹⁷ Therefore I say this, and witness in the Lord, that you no longer walk about as the Gentiles also walk about in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance being in themselves, on account of the blindness of their heart; ¹⁹ who being past feeling have given themselves up to debauchery, unto the working of all impurity with greediness. ²⁰ But you did not so learn Christ: ²¹ if indeed ye have heard him, and been taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus: ²² that with reference to your former life, you are to lay aside the old man, who is corrupt in the lusts of deception; ²³ and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and to put on the new man, who has been created in harmony with God in the righteousness and holiness of the truth. ²⁵ Therefore, having laid aside lying, speak the truth each one with his neighbors: because we are members of one another. ²⁶ Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your provocation: ²⁷ neither give place to the devil. ²⁸ Let the one stealing steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his own hands doing that which is good, that he may have to give to the one having need. ²⁹ Let no corrupt communication go forth out of your mouth, but if anything is good unto edification of need, in order that he may give grace to those who hear. ³⁰ And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed unto the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, depart from you, with all evil. ³² But be ye kind toward one another, merciful, forgiving one another, as indeed God in Christ forgave you.

¹² but we command such and exhort them in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietude working, they must eat their own bread.

⁶ and he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

¹⁰ For indeed when we were with you, we proclaimed this to you, that if any one does not wish to work, let him not eat.

¹ Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members? ² You lust, and you have not: you murder, and you strive, and you are not able to obtain: you fight and you war; and have not, because you do not ask: ³ you ask, and you receive not, because you ask wickedly, that you may expend it in your pleasures. ⁴ O adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whosoever therefore may wish to be the friend of the world renders himself the enemy of God. ⁵ Whether do you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit who dwells in us fights against envy? ⁶ and he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble. ⁷ Therefore draw nigh unto God; and resist the devil, and he will flee from you: ⁸ draw nigh unto God, and he draws nigh unto you. Purify your hands, ye sinners; and cleanse your hearts, ye double-minded. ⁹ Weep, and mourn, lament: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will raise you up. ¹¹ Do not calumniate one another, brethren: the one speaking against his brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. ¹² There is one lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who are you, the one judging your neighbor.