Bible verses about "self-pity" | JuliaSmith

¹³ Being thrust, I was thrust down to fall, and Jehovah helped me.

¹⁴ Cursed the day which I was born in it; the day which my mother brought me forth shall not be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed the man who announced to my father, Good news; saying, A son, a male was born to thee; with rejoicing, making him rejoice. ¹⁶ And that man being as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and lamented not: and hearing the cry in the morning and the loud noise in time of noon. ¹⁷ Because he killed me not from the womb, and my mother will be to me my grave, and her womb pregnant forever. ¹⁸ Wherefore this came I forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, and my days shall be finished with shame?

³ Happy the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of the heavens.

¹⁹ Or know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

¹ James, servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the dispersion, health. ² Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials; ³ Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience. ⁴ And let patience have a perfect work, that ye be perfect and entire, being left behind in nothing. ⁵ If any of you is forsaken of wisdom, let him ask of God, giving to all plainly, blaming not; and it shall be given him. ⁶ And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion. ⁷ For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. ⁸ A man divided in opinion unsteady in all his ways. ⁹ And let the humble brother boast in his elevation: ¹⁰ And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by. ¹¹ For the sun sprang up with heat, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the decorum of its face was destroyed: so also shall the rich be dried up in his goings. ¹² Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him. ¹³ Let none say being tempted, that I am tempted of God: for God is not tempted of evils, and he tempts none: ¹⁴ And each is tempted from his own lust, being drawn out, and decoyed. ¹⁵ So then lust conceiving, brings forth sin: and sin performed, produces death. ¹⁶ Be not led astray, my dearly beloved brethren. ¹⁷ Every good donation and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom not one change, or shadow of turning. ¹⁸ Having willed he brought forth by the word of truth, for us to be some first fruit of his creatures. ¹⁹ Wherefore, my dearly beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger: ²⁰ For man s anger works not the justice of God. ²¹ Wherefore having put away all sordid avarice, and excess of wickedness, in meekness receive the implanted word, able to save your souls. ²² And be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if any is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man observing the face of his creation in a mirror: ²⁴ For he observed himself, and went away, and straightway forgot of what kind he was. ²⁵ And he having stooped into the perfect law of liberty, and remained, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, he shall be happy in his doing. ²⁶ If any among you seem to be religious, bridling not his tongue, but deceiving his heart, the religion of this one vain. ²⁷ Religion pure and unpolluted before God and the Father is this, To take a view of the orphans and widows in their pressure, to keep himself free from stain from the world.

⁷ Be subjected therefore to God. Resist the accuser, and he will flee from you.

¹ To the overseer; chanting of David. ² How long, O Jehovah, wilt thou wholly forget me? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? ³ How long shall I put counsels in my soul, grief in my heart the day? how long shall mine enemy rise up against me? ⁴ Look upon, answer me, O Jehovah my God: enlighten mine eyes, lest I shall sleep the death; ⁵ Lest mine enemy shall say, I prevailed against him; mine adversaries shall exult when I shall be moved. ⁶ And I trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall exult in thy salvation. I will sing to Jehovah for he benefited me.

² And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.

²⁰ I am crucified with Christ: and I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in we: and what I now live in the flesh I live in the faith of the Son of God, having loved me, and given himself for me.

⁷ Having cast all your care upon him; for to him is the care for you.

²⁸ Come to me, all ye wearied and loaded, and I will cause you to rest. ²⁹ Lift up my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and humble in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is useful, and my load is light.

¹³ No temptation except human has taken you and God faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but with the temptation will he also make an escape, that ye may be able to bear.

² Deem all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials; ³ Knowing that the proof of your faith works patience. ⁴ And let patience have a perfect work, that ye be perfect and entire, being left behind in nothing. ⁵ If any of you is forsaken of wisdom, let him ask of God, giving to all plainly, blaming not; and it shall be given him. ⁶ And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion. ⁷ For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. ⁸ A man divided in opinion unsteady in all his ways. ⁹ And let the humble brother boast in his elevation: ¹⁰ And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by. ¹¹ For the sun sprang up with heat, and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the decorum of its face was destroyed: so also shall the rich be dried up in his goings. ¹² Happy the man who endures temptation: for being tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them loving him.

⁶ Rave anxiety about nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with gratitude let your desires be made known to God.

³ And not only, but also we boast in affliction: knowing that affliction works perseverance;