Bible verses about "popularity" | Lamsa

⁸ Be vigilant, and be cautious; because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:

⁴ O you adulterers! Do you not know that the love for worldly things is enmity with God? Whosoever, therefore, esteems worldly things is the enemy of God.

¹ MY brethren, do not, with hypocrisy, uphold the glorious faith of our LORD Jesus Christ. ² For if there should enter into your synagogue a man with gold rings and costly garments, and there should also enter a poor man in soiled clothing; ³ And you should attend to the one who wears the beautiful clothing, and say to him, Sit here in a good place; and say to the poor man, Stand up there, or sit here before our footstool; ⁴ Are you not then showing partiality, and thereby give preference to evil thoughts? ⁵ Hear this, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of the world who are rich in faith, to be heirs of the kingdom which God has promised to those who love him? ⁶ But you have despised the poor. Do not rich men exalt themselves over you and drag you before the judgment seat? ⁷ Do not they blaspheme against that good name by which you are called? ⁸ If you fulfil the law of God by this, as it is written, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, you do well: ⁹ But if you discriminate among men, you commit sin and you will be condemned by the law as transgressors of the law. ¹⁰ For whoever shall keep the whole law, except that he fail in but one statute, he is guilty as to the whole law. ¹¹ For he who said, Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also, Thou shalt not kill. Now if you do not commit adultery, but you kill, you have become a transgressor of the law. ¹² So speak and so act, as men who are to be judged by the law of liberty. ¹³ For a judgment without mercy will be on him, who does not show mercy; for you exalt yourselves by having mercy over judgment.

²⁶ Woe to you when men speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

² Do not imitate the way of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, that you may discern what is that good and acceptable, and perfect will of God.

⁷ And he spoke a parable to those who were invited there, because he saw them choosing places among the front seats. ⁸ When you are invited of a man to a banquet house, do not go and sit in the front seat; it might be that a more honorable man than you is invited there; ⁹ And then he who has invited you and him will come, and say to you, Give the place to him; and you will be embarrassed when you get up and take a lower seat. ¹⁰ But when you are invited, go and sit at the lower end, so that when he who has invited you comes, he will say to you, My friend, go up and sit higher; and you will have glory before all who sit with you. ¹¹ For whoever exalts himself will be humbled; and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. ¹² He also said to him who had invited him, When you give a dinner or a supper, do not invite your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor your rich neighbors; they might probally invite you, and you will be repaid for this. ¹³ But when you give a reception, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame and the blind; ¹⁴ And you will be blessed; for they have nothing to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.

²⁵ For how can a man be benefited, if he gain the whole world, but lose his own soul, or even weakens it?