Bible verses about "entitlement" | JuliaSmith

¹⁰⁵ Thy word a lamp to my feet, and a light to my beaten path.

¹⁶ Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore discerning as serpents, and pure as doves.

⁷ And he spake a parable to the called, fixing his attention how they chose out the first places at table; saying to them, ⁸ When thou art called to the nuptials, thou shouldest not recline in the first place at table; lest a more honourable than thou be called by him: ⁹ And he having called thee and him, having come, shall say to thee, Give place to this; and then thou shalt begin with shame to take possession of the last place. ¹⁰ But when thou art called, having gone, recline in the last place; that when he having called thee come, might say to thee, Friend, mount up higher; then shall honour be to thee beore them reclining with thee. ¹¹ For whoever exalts himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be exalted.

¹ Then spake Jesus to the crowds and to his disciples, ² Saying, Upon Moses' seat sat the scribes and Pharisees. ³ Therefore all whatever they say to you to keep, keep and do; and according to their works do not, for they say and do not. ⁴ For they bind loads heavy and difficult to carry, and put upon men's shoulders; and with their fingers will they not move them. ⁵ And all their works do they, to be seen by men: and make broad their preservatives, and enlarge the border of their garments ⁶ And love the first place at suppers, and the first seat in the assemblies, ⁷ And greetings in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi. ⁸ And be ye not called Rabbi: for one is your guide, Christ; and all ye are brethren. ⁹ And call not your father upon earth: for one is your Father, which in the heavens. ¹⁰ Nor be ye called leaders, for one is your Leader, Christ. ¹¹ And the greater of you shall be your servant. ¹² And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whoever shall humble himself, shall be exalted. ¹³ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye lock up the kingdom of the heavens before men: for ye come not in yourselves, neither those coming in, permit ye to come in. ¹⁴ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for pretence, praying at great lengths; for this shall ye receive more distingnished judgment. ¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! for ye go about sea and dry land to make one proselyte, and when he should become, ye make him the son of hell, twofold more than you. ¹⁶ Woe to you blind guides, saying, Whoever should swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever should swear by the gold of the temple, he is indebted! ¹⁷ Foolish and blind; for which is the greater, the gold, or the temple consecrating the gold? ¹⁸ And, Whoever should swear by the altar, it is nothing; and whoever should swear by the gift above it, he is indebted. ¹⁹ Foolish and blind: for which is the greater, the gift, or the altar, consecrating the gifts? ²⁰ Therefore, he having sworn by the altar, swears by it, and by all above it. ²¹ And he having sworn by the temple, swears by it, and by him dwelling in it. ²² And he having sworn by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him sitting above it. ²³ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye exact tenths and dill and cummin, and ye have left the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith: these it was necessary to do, and not to let go those. ²⁴ Blind guides, straining a gnat, and swallowing down a camel. ²⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup, and the side dish of sweet-meats, and within they are full of pillage and bad mixture. ²⁶ O blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, and side dish of sweetmeats, that also their outside might be clean. ²⁷ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whitewashed tombs, which without indeed appear beautiful, but within are full of the bones of the dead, and of all uncleanness. ²⁸ So also ye without truly appear just to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. ²⁹ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and deck the monuments of the just, ³⁰ And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we had not been their partakers in the blood of the prophets, ³¹ Wherefore ye bear testimony to yourselves, that ye are the sons of those having slain the prophets. ³² And fill ye up yourselves the measure of your fathers. ³³ Serpents, generations of vipers, how would ye flee from the judgment of hell? ³⁴ Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, and the wise, and scribes: and of them shall ye kill and crucify; and of them shall ye chastise in your assemblies, and drive out from city to city, ³⁵ So that all the just blood shed upon the earth might come upon you, from the blood of just Abel to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye killed between the temple and altar. ³⁶ Truly I say to you, All these shall come upon this generation. ³⁷ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and stoning those sent to her; how often did I wish to gather thy children together, which manner a bird gathers together her young broods under the wings, and ye would not! ³⁸ Behold, your house is left to you desolate. ³⁹ For I say to you, Ye should not see me from henceforth, till ye should say, Praised be he coming in the name of the Lord.

¹ Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, who having taken their lanterns, went forth to the meeting of the bridegroom. ² And five of them were discerning, and five foolish. ³ Those foolish having taken their lanterns, took no oil with them. ⁴ And the discerning took oil in their vessels with their lanterns. ⁵ And the bridegroom delaying, they all slumbered and slept. ⁶ And in the middle of the night there was a cry, Behold, the bridegroom comes; go ye forth to his meeting. ⁷ Then all these virgins were aroused, and put their lanterns in order. ⁸ And the foolish said to the discerning, Give us of your oil; for our lights are quenched. ⁹ And the discerning answered, saying, Lest it should not suffice us and you: but go ye rather to those selling, and buy for yourselves. ¹⁰ And they, going to buy, the bridegroom came; and they prepared, went in with him to the nuptials; and the door was locked. ¹¹ And afterwards came also the rest of the virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. ¹² And he having answered said, Truly I say to you, I know you not. ¹³ Watch, therefore, for ye know not the day, neither the hour, in which the Son of man comes. ¹⁴ For as a man going abroad, called his own servants, and delivered them his possessions: ¹⁵ And to one he truly gave five talents, and to one, two, and to one, one; to each according to his own power; and he quickly went abroad. ¹⁶ And he having received five talents, having gone, worked with them, and he made other five talents. ¹⁷ Likewise he having the two also, gained he also other two. ¹⁸ And he having received one, having departed, dug in the earth, and concealed his lord's silver. ¹⁹ And after much time the lord of these servants comes, and lifts up the word with them. ²⁰ And he having received the five talents, having come near, brought the other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst me five talents: and I have gained other five talents. ²¹ And his lord said to him, Well, good and faithful servant: thou west faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many; enter into the joy of thy lord. ²² And he also having received the two talents, having come near said, Lord, thou deliveredst me two talents; see, I gained two other talents to them. ²³ His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful servant; thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many; enter into the joy of thy lord. ²⁴ And he also having received one talent, having come near, said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou sowedst not, and gathering where thou scatteredst not: ²⁵ And having been afraid, having gone away, I concealed thy talent in the earth; see, thou hast thine own. ²⁶ And his lord having answered, said to him, O evil and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I scattered not: ²⁷ Thou therefore oughtest to have cast my silver to the money changers, and I having come, had received mine own, with interest ²⁸ Therefore take the talent away from him, and give him having ten talents. ²⁹ For to every one having shall be given, and he shall be in abundance: and from him not having, also what he has shall be taken away from him. ³⁰ And cast ye the useless servant into darkness without; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth. ³¹ And when the Son of man should come in his glory, and all his holy messengers with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: ³² And all nations shall be gathered together before him, and he shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the kids: . ³³ And he shall set the sheep from his right, and the kids from his left. ³⁴ Then shall the king say to them from his right, Come, the praised of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: ³⁵ For I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me to drink: I was a stranger, and ye brought me in: ³⁶ Naked, and ye put around me: I was sick, and ye reviewed me: I was in prison, and ye came to me. ³⁷ Then shall the just answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungering, and nourished or thirsting, and gave to drink ³⁸ And when saw we thee a stranger, and brought in or naked, and put around ³⁹ And when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came to thee? ⁴⁰ And the king having answered, will say to them, Trull I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did to one of the least of my brethren, ye did to me. ⁴¹ Then shall he say to them from the left, Go away from me, the cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his messengers: ⁴² For I was hungry, and ye gave me not to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink; ⁴³ I was a stranger and ye brought me not in; naked, and ye put not around me; sick, and in prison, and ye took not a view of me. ⁴⁴ Then shall they answer him, they also saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and attended not to thee? ⁴⁵ Then shall he answer them saying, Inasmuch as ye did not to one of the least of these, ye did not to me. ⁴⁶ And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: and the just into eternal life.

¹⁹ Avenging not yourselves, beloved, but give ye place to anger: for it has been written, Vengeance to me; I will repay, says the Lord.

¹⁶ And we have known and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love; and he remaining in love remains in God, and God in him.

¹ A wise son the instruction of a father: and he. mocking heard not reproof. ² From the fruit of a man's mouth he shall eat good: and the soul of the transgressing, violence. ³ He guarding his mouth, watched his soul: he opening wide his lips, destruction to him. ⁴ The soul of the slothful one desiring, and nothing: and the soul of the active shall be made fat ⁵ The just one will hate the word of falsehood: and the unjust one will be loathsome and be put to shame. ⁶ Justice will guard the blameless of way: and injustice shall overthrow the sinning. ⁷ There is he making himself rich, and not anything: making himself poor, and much wealth. ⁸ The expiating of a man's soul is his riches: and the poor will not hear rebuke. ⁹ The light of the just shall rejoice: and the lamp of the unjust shall be quenched. ¹⁰ Only by pride contention will be given: but with those being advised, wisdom. ¹¹ Wealth from vanity shall be diminished: and he gathering with the hand, shall increase. ¹² Hope being forgotten afflicts the heart: and desire coming, a tree of life. ¹³ He despising to the word it shall be perverse to him: and he fearing the command shall be requited. ¹⁴ The law of the wise one a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. ¹⁵ Good understanding shall give grace: and the way of the transgressing is perpetuity. ¹⁶ Every prudent one will do in knowledge: and the foolish one will spread folly. ¹⁷ The unjust messenger shall fall into evil: and a messenger of faithfulness is healing. ¹⁸ Instruction dismisses poverty and shame: and he watching reproof shall be honored. ¹⁹ The desire coming to pass, will be sweet to the soul: and an abomination to the foolish to depart from evil. ²⁰ He going with the wise, and he is wise: and the companion of the foolish shall become evil. ²¹ Evil shall pursue the sinning: and good shall requite the just ²² The good shall cause his sons' sons to inherit: and the wealth of him sinning was treasured up for the just. ²³ Much food to the fallow ground of the poor: and in no judgment there is destroying ²⁴ He withholding his rod hates his son: and he loving him, sought correction for him. ²⁵ The just one ate to fill his soul: and the belly of the unjust shall want

¹ For the kingdom of the heavens is like to a man, master of a house, who went out as soon as morning to hire workmen for his vineyard. ² And having agreed for a drachma a day, he sent them to his vineyard. ³ And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the market-place, ⁴ And he says to them, Retire ye also into the vineyard, and whatever should be just I will give you: and they departed. ⁵ Again, having gone out about the sixth and ninth hour, he did likewise. ⁶ And about the eleventh hour, having gone out, he found others standing idle, and he says to them, Why stand ye here idle the whole day? ⁷ They say to him, That none has hired us. He says to them, Retire also to the vineyard; and whatever be just, ye shall receive. ⁸ And it being evening, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the workmen, and give back to them the wages, beginning from the last even to the first. ⁹ And they of the eleventh hour having come, thereupon received a drachma. ¹⁰ And the first, having come, thought that they will receive more; and they also received thereupon a drachma. ¹¹ And having received, they murmured against the master of the house, ¹² Saying, That these last worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, having borne the burden and heat of the day. ¹³ And he, having answered, said to one of them, Friend, I injure thee not; didst not thou agree with me for a drachma? ¹⁴ Take thine and retire: and I will to give to this last, as also to thee. ¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my things? Or is thine eye evil because I am good ¹⁶ So shall the last be first, and the first last; for many are called, but few chosen.

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for which he anointed me to announce good news to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim a remission to the captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send away with remission the bruised,

⁸ And if any for his own, and chiefly for his own household provide not, he has denied the faith, and is worse than the unbelieving.

¹ Therefore I, the imprisoned in the Lord, beseech you to walk Worthy of the calling which ye were called, ² With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, bearing one another in love; ³ Striving earnestly to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. ⁴ One body, and one Spirit, as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; ⁵ One Lord, one faith, one immersion, ⁶ One God and Father of all, who over all, and through all, and in you all. ⁷ And to each one of us was grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. ⁸ Wherefore he says, Having ascended into height, he made captivity captive, and gave gifts to men. ⁹ (And so having ascended, what is it except that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He having descended is the same having ascended above all the heavens, that he might fill up all things.) ¹¹ And truly he gave the sent; and the prophets; and the bearers of good tidings; and the shepherds, and the teachers; ¹² For the adjusting of the holy, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of Christ: ¹³ Until we all arrive to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the perfect man, to the measure of age of the filling up of Christ. ¹⁴ That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit; ¹⁵ And speaking the truth in love, let us grow up into him in all things, who is the head, Christ: ¹⁶ From whom all the body fitted together and joined together by every touch of the expenditure, according to the energy in measure of one of each part, makes the increase of the body to the building up of itself in love. ¹⁷ Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart; ¹⁹ Who no longer having had feeling delivered themselves to licentiousness, to the work of all uncleanness in overreaching. ²⁰ And ye have not so learned Christ; ²¹ If ye heard him, and were taught in him, as is the truth in Jesus: ²² For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit; ²³ And to be renewed in the spirit of your mind; ²⁴ And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth. ²⁵ Wherefore falsehood ye having put away, speak the truth each with his neighbor: for ye are members one of another. ²⁶ Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your fit of anger: ²⁷ Neither give place to the accuser. ²⁸ He stealing let him steal no more: and rather let him be wearied from fatigue, working good with the hands, that he have to impart to him having need. ²⁹ Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing. ³⁰ And grieve ye not the Holy Spirit of God in which ye were sealed to the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness: ³² And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.

¹² And to such we proclaim and beseech by our Lord Jesus Christ, that, with freedom from care working, they should eat their own bread.

⁶ And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

¹⁰ For also when we were with you, this we proclaimed to you, that if any will not work, neither should he eat.

¹ Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members ² Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not. ³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask wickedly that ye might expend upon your sensual pleasures. ⁴ Adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is the enmity of God? whoever therefore would wish to be the friend of the world is set the enemy of God. ⁵ Or think ye that the writing says vainly, That the spirit longs for envy, which dwelt in us? ⁶ And he gives greater grace. Wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. ⁷ Be subjected therefore to God. Resist the accuser, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled. ⁹ Toil, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and joy to dejection. ¹⁰ Be ye humbled before the Lord, and he will lift you up. ¹¹ Speak not against one another, brethren. He speaking against a brother, and judging his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law: and if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. ¹² There is one legislator, able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another