Bible verses about "popularity" | MSTC

³⁶ And the people wist it, and it pleased them, as well as all other good things which the king did in the sight of the people.

²³ After pride cometh a fall; but a lowly spirit bringeth great worship.

⁸ Be sober, and watch. For your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

⁴ Ye adulterers, and women that break matrimony: know ye not how that the friendship of the world is enmity to Godward? Whosoever will be friend of the world, is made the enemy of God.

⁷ But the LORD said unto Samuel, "Look not on his fashion nor on the height of his stature, for I have refused him. Because it is not as man seeth. For man looketh on the outward appearance: but the LORD beholdeth the heart."

¹ My son, forget not my law, but see that thine heart keep my commandments. ² For they shall prolong the days and years of thy life, and bring thee peace. ³ Let mercy and faithfulness never go from thee: bind them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thine heart. ⁴ So shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and men.

²⁵ He that feareth men, shall have a fall; but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall come to honour.

¹ Brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of glory in respect of persons. ² If there come into your company a man with a golden ring, and in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment, ³ and ye have a respect to him that weareth the gay clothing and say unto him, "Sit thou here in a good place," and say unto the poor, "stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool" - ⁴ are ye not even partial in your selves, and have judged after evil thoughts? ⁵ Hearken, my dear beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world, which are rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to them that love him? ⁶ But ye have despised the poor. Are not the rich they which oppress you: and they which draw you before judges? ⁷ Do not they speak evil of that good name after which ye be named? ⁸ If ye fulfil the royal law — according to the scripture which saith, "Thou shalt love thine neighbour as thyself" — ye do well. ⁹ But if ye regard one person more than another, ye commit sin, and are rebuked of the law as transgressors. ¹⁰ Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet fail in one point, he is guilty in all. ¹¹ For he that said, "Thou shalt not commit adultery," said also, "thou shalt not kill." Though thou shalt do none adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art a transgressor of the law. ¹² So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty. ¹³ For there shall be judgment, merciless, to him that showeth no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

²⁶ Woe be to you when all men praise you: for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

² And fashion not yourselves like unto this world: But be changed through the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what thing that good, that acceptable, and perfect will of God is.

²⁰ He that goeth in the company of wise men, shall be wise; but whoso is a companion of fools shall be hurt.

⁷ He put forth a similitude to the guests, when he marked how they pressed to the highest rooms, and said unto them, ⁸ "When thou art bidden to a wedding of any man, sit not down in the highest room, lest a more honorable man than thou be bidden of him, ⁹ and he that bade both him and thee, come and say to thee, 'Give this man room.' And thou then begin with shame to take the lowest room. ¹⁰ But rather, when thou art bidden, go and sit in the lowest room, that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, 'Friend, sit up higher.' Then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. ¹¹ For whosoever exalteth himself, shall be brought low. And he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted." ¹² Then said he also to him that had desired him to dinner, "When thou makest a dinner, or a supper: call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor yet rich neighbours: lest they bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee. ¹³ But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, and the blind, ¹⁴ and thou shalt be happy: For they cannot recompense thee. But thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just men."

²⁵ For what shall it advantage a man, to win the whole world, if he lose himself: or run in damage of himself?