Bible verses about "entitlement" | Sawyer

^{16 (7:2)} Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

^{7 (19:2)} And he spoke a parable to the invited, when he observed how they selected the first places at the table; saying to them, ⁸ When you are invited by any one to a wedding, do not sit down in the first place, lest at some time a more honorable man than you should have been invited by him, ⁹ and he that invited you and him come and say to you, Give this man a place; and then with shame you take the last place. ¹⁰ But when you are invited, go and sit down in the last place, that when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher; then you shall have honor in the presence of those that recline with you; ¹¹ for every one that exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

^{1 (21:1)} THEN Jesus spoke to the multitudes and his disciples, ² saying, The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' seat. ³ All things therefore which they tell you, do and keep. But do not their works. For they say and do not, ⁴ but bind heavy burdens and put them on the shoulders of men, but will not move them with their finger. ⁵ And they do all their works to be seen by men. For they make broad their prayer fillets, and enlarge the fringes, ⁶ and love the first tables at feasts, and the first seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and salutations in the markets, and to be called by men, Rabbi. ⁸ But do not you be called Rabbi; For one is your teacher, and you are all brothers. ⁹ And call no man your father on the earth, for one is your heavenly Father. ¹⁰ Neither be called leaders, for one is your leader, the Christ. ¹¹ But the greatest of you shall be your servant, ¹² and whoever exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted. ^{13 (21:2)} But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven before men; for you enter not into it, neither do you suffer those entering to go in. ¹⁴ (Added verse not retained in Sawyer) ¹⁵ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you compass the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. ¹⁶ Woe to you blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound. ¹⁷ Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold? ¹⁸ If a man swears by the altar, it is nothing; but if be swears by the gift which is on it, he is bound. ¹⁹ Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift? ²⁰ He then that swears by the altar, swears by it, and by all things on it; ²¹ and he that swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him that inhabits it; ²² and he that swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him that sits on it. ^{23 (21:3)} Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith. These you ought to do, and not neglect the others. ²⁴ Blind guides! who strain out a gnat and swallow down a camel. ²⁵ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and platter, but within they are full of plunder and excess. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee! cleanse first that which is in the cup and platter, that its outside may be clean also. ²⁷ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which appear fair without, but within are full of the bones of the dead and of all impurity. ²⁸ So also you on the outside appear just to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. ²⁹ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous, ³⁰ and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. ³¹ So that you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets; ³² and you have filled up the measure of your fathers. ³³ Serpents, offspring of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell? ^{34 (21:4)} Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; ³⁵ that all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Bararchiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar, may come upon you. ³⁶ I tell you truly, that all these [crimes] shall come on this generation. ^{37 (21:5)} Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and stoning those sent to you, how often would I have gathered your children together, as a bird gathers her brood under her wings, but you would not! ³⁸ Behold, your house is left to you desolate; ³⁹ for I tell you that you shall not see me henceforth, till you say, Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord!

^{1 (22:10)} Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their own lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom; ² and five of them were foolish, and five wise. ³ The foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them; ⁴ but the wise took oil in the vessels with their lamps. ⁵ And while the bridegroom delayed, all slumbered and slept; ⁶ but at midnight there was a cry, Behold the bridegroom; go out to meet him. ⁷ Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their own lamps. ⁸ And the foolish said to the wise, Give us of your oil, for our lamps have gone out. ⁹ But the wise answered, saying, [No]; lest there be not enough for us and you; go rather to those that sell, and buy for yourselves. ¹⁰ And while they went to buy the bridegroom came; and the ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was shut. ¹¹ And afterwards the other virgins came, and said, Lord, Lord, open to us. ¹² But he answered and said, I tell you truly I know you not. ¹³ Watch, therefore, for you know not the day nor the hour. ^{14 (22:11)} For, as a man going abroad called his servants, and delivered to them his estates; ¹⁵ to one he gave five talents [$5,000], to another two [$2,000], and to another one [$1,000]; to each according to his ability, and immediately went abroad. ¹⁶ And he that received the five talents went and traded with them, and made other five; ¹⁷ in like manner, also, he that received the two gained two others; ¹⁸ but he that received the one went away and dug in the earth and hid his lord's money. ¹⁹ And after a long time the lord of those servants came, and had a settlement with them. ²⁰ And he that received the five talents came and brought five other talents, saying, Lord, you committed to me five talents; behold, I have gained five other talents. ²¹ His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few [talents], I will place you over many: enter into the joy of your lord. ²² And he that received the two talents also came to him and said, Lord, you committed to me two talents; behold, I have gained two others. ²³ His Lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few [talents], I will place you over many: enter into the joy of your lord. ^{24 (22:12)} And he that received the one talent also came and said, Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sowed, and gathering where you have not scattered, ²⁵ and being afraid I went away and hid your talent in the earth; behold, you have what is yours. ²⁶ And his Lord answered and said to him, Evil and slothful servant, you knew that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather whence I have not scattered? ²⁷ And you ought then to have given my money to the brokers, and at my coming, I should have received my own with interest. ²⁸ Take his talent, therefore, from him, and give it to him that has ten talents; ²⁹ for to every one that has shall be given, and he shall have an abundance; but from him that has not, even what he has shall be taken away; ³⁰ and cast the unprofitable servant into the darkness outside; there shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth. ^{31 (22:13)} But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then shall he sit on the throne of his glory, ³² and all the nations shall be assembled before him, and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; ³³ and he shall place the sheep on his right hand, and the goats on his left. ^{34 (22:14)} Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; ³⁵ for I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; ³⁶ naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me. ³⁷ Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you? or thirsty, and give you drink? ³⁸ when did we see you a stranger, and take you in? or naked, and clothe you? ³⁹ when did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you? ⁴⁰ And the king shall answer and say to them, I tell you truly, that inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these my brothers, you have done it to me. ^{41 (22:15)} Then shall he say to those on his left hand, Depart from me accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. ⁴² For I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink; ⁴³ a stranger, and you took me not in; sick and in prison and you visited me not. ⁴⁴ Then shall they also answer and say, Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not serve you? ⁴⁵ Then he shall answer them saying, I tell you truly, that inasmuch as you have not done it to one of the least of these my brothers, you have not done it to me. ⁴⁶ And these shall go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.

¹⁹ not vindicating yourselves, beloved, but give place to wrath; for it is written, Judgment is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.

¹⁶ And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that continues in love continues in God and God in him.

^{1 (17:8)} For the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who went out early in the morning to hire laborers in his vineyard. ² And agreeing with the laborers for a denarius [14 cents] a day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³ And going out about the third hour, he saw others standing idle in the market; ⁴ and he said to them, go also into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went. ⁵ Again going out about the sixth and ninth hours, he did likewise. ⁶ And going out about the eleventh hour he found others standing, and said to them, Why stand you all the day idle? ⁷ They said to him, Because no man has hired us. He said to them, Go also into the vineyard. ⁸ And when it was evening the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, Call the laborers, and pay them the wages [stipulated], beginning from the last even to the first. ⁹ And those who came about the eleventh hour, received a denarius [14 cents] each. ¹⁰ And those who came first supposed that they should receive more. And they also received a denarius [14 cents] each; ¹¹ and when they had received it, they complained of the householder, ¹² saying, These last have worked but one hour, and you have made them equal with us, who have borne the burden and heat of the day. ¹³ But he answered and said to one of them, Neighbor, I do you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius [14 cents]? ¹⁴ Take what belongs to you, and go, for I will give to the last even as to you. ¹⁵ Is it not right for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye evil because I am good? ¹⁶ So the last shall be first, and the first last.

¹⁸ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor; he has sent me to proclaim a release to the captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send the oppressed away free,

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

^{1 (2:1)} I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the call with which you were called, ² with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love, ³ using diligence to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. ⁴ There is one body, and one spirit, as you also are called in one hope of your call; ⁵ one Lord, one faith, one baptism; ⁶ one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. ⁷ And to each one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. ^{8 (2:2)} Wherefore he says, When he ascended on high, he took captivity captive, and gave gifts to men. ⁹ But this, that he ascended, what is it but that he first descended into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He that descended is the same also that ascended above all heavens, that he might fill all [places]. ¹¹ And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, ¹² for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ, ¹³ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, ¹⁴ that we may be no longer children, driven about like waves and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the art of men, and the craftiness of deceitful wiles, ¹⁵ but speaking the truth with love we may grow to him in all things, who is the head, Christ; ¹⁶ by whom all the body being joined together and compacted by the supply of every joint, according to the proportionate operation of every part, makes increase of the body to the edification of itself in love. ^{17 (2:3)} This I say then and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds, ¹⁸ with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts, ¹⁹ who being without feeling have given themselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness. ²⁰ But you have not so learned Christ, ²¹ if you have indeed heard him, and been instructed by him as the truth is in Jesus, ²² that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires, ²³ and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, ²⁴ and put on the new man, created after God in righteousness and true holiness. ^{25 (2:4)} Wherefore, laying aside lying let every one speak the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another. ²⁶ Be angry and sin not; let not the sun go down on your wrath, ²⁷ neither give place to the devil. ²⁸ Let him that has stolen steal no more, but rather let him labor, doing that which is good with his hands, that he may have to give to him that needs. ²⁹ Let no evil word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for useful edification, that it may afford benefit to those that hear. ³⁰ And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by which you were sealed to the day of redemption. ³¹ Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice. ³² But be kind one to another, merciful, giving one to another, as God also in Christ gave to you.

¹² we charge and exhort such, by our Lord Jesus Christ, to work quietly, and eat their own bread.

⁶ But he gives more grace; wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

¹⁰ For when we were with you, we gave you this charge, that if any one will not work, neither let him eat.

^{1 (2:3)} Whence come wars and contentions among you? Come they not thence, from your pleasures that war in your members? ² You desire and have not; you kill, and envy, and cannot obtain; you fight and carry on war. You have not, because you do not ask; ³ you ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, to expend on your pleasures. ⁴ Adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wishes to be a friend of the world, is made an enemy of God. ⁵ Or do you suppose that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit which dwells in us desires to envy? ⁶ But he gives more grace; wherefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. ⁷ Be subject therefore to God; resist the devil and he will flee from you; ⁸ draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners, purify your hearts, double-minded. ⁹ Lament, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into sorrow. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you. ^{11 (2:4)} Speak not one against one another, brothers. He that speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. ¹² There is one law-giver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you that judge a neighbor?