Bible verses about "belittling" | Worrell

¹⁰ The thief comes not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came, that they may have life, and that they may have it abundantly.

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² The same was in the beginning with God. ³ All things were made through Him, and apart from Him was not even one thing made that has been made. ⁴ In Him was Life; and the Life was the light of men. ⁵ And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not. ⁶ There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. ⁷ The same came for a testimony, that he might testify concerning the Light, that all might believe through him. ⁸ He was not the Light; but he came, that he might testify concerning the Light. ⁹ He was the true Light That lighteth every man coming into the world. ¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world knew Him not. ¹¹ He came to His own possessions, and those who were His own received Him not. ¹² But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those believing in His name; ¹³ who were born, not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and tabernacled among us, (and we beheld His glory—glory as of the Only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth. ¹⁵ John testifies concerning Him, and has cried, saying, "This was He of Whom I said, 'He That cometh after me hath become before me, because He was before me;'" ¹⁶ because out of His fulness we all received, and grace for grace: ¹⁷ because the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, Who is in the bosom of the Father, He declared Him. ¹⁹ And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent forth priests and Levites from Jerusalem, to ask him, "Who are you?" ²⁰ And he confessed, and denied not; and he confessed, "I am not the Christ." ²¹ And they asked him, "What then? Are you Elijah?" And he says, "I am not." "Are you the prophet?" And he answered, "No." ²² They said therefore, to him, "Who are you? that we may give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say concerning yourself?" ²³ He said, "'I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord,'" as said Isaiah the prophet. ²⁴ And they had been sent from among the Pharisees. ²⁵ And they asked him, and said to him, "Why, then, do you immerse, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?" ²⁶ John answered them, saying, "I immerse in water: in your midst standeth One Whom ye know not— ²⁷ the One coming after me, the latchet of Whose sandal I am not worthy to unloose." ²⁸ These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was immersing. ²⁹ On the morrow he sees Jesus coming to him, and he says, "Behold, the Lamb of God Who taketh away the sin of the world! ³⁰ This is He of Whom I said, 'After me cometh a Man Who hath become before me, because He was before me.' ³¹ And I knew Him not; but, that He might be manifested to Israel, for this cause I came immersing in water." ³² And John testified, saying, "I have beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of Heaven, and He abode upon Him. ³³ And I knew Him not; but He who sent me to immerse in water, He said to me, 'Upon Whomsoever you shall see the Spirit descending and abiding on Him, the Same is He Who immerseth in the Holy Spirit.' ³⁴ And I have seen, and have testified, that This is the Son of God." ³⁵ Again, on the morrow, John was standing, and two of his disciples; ³⁶ and, looking upon Jesus as He was walking, says, "Behold, the Lamb of God!" ³⁷ And the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus. ³⁸ And Jesus, turning and beholding them following, saith to them, "What are ye seeking?" They said to Him, "Rabbi," (which, being translated, means Teacher), "where abidest Thou?" ³⁹ He saith to them, "Come and ye shall see." They came, therefore, and saw where He was abiding, and they abode with Him that day: it was about the tenth hour. ⁴⁰ Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard it from John, and followed Him. ⁴¹ He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, "We have found the Messiah," (which, being translated, is Christ). ⁴² He led him to Jesus. Jesus looking on him, said, "You are Simon, the son of John; you shall be called Cephas," (which is translated Peter). ⁴³ On the morrow, He wished to go forth into Galilee; and He findeth Philip, and saith to him, "Follow Me." ⁴⁴ Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. ⁴⁵ Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him, "We have found Him of Whom Moses in the law and the prophets wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." ⁴⁶ And Nathanael said to him, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" Philip says to him, "Come and see." ⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and He saith to him, "Behold, an Israelite, indeed, in whom there is no guile!" ⁴⁸ Nathanael says to Him, "Whence knowest Thou me?" Jesus answered, and said to him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you." ⁴⁹ Nathaniel answered Him, "Rabbi, Thou art the Son of God; Thou art the King of Israel." ⁵⁰ Jesus answered, and said to him, "Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You shall see greater things than these." ⁵¹ And He saith to him, "Verily, verily, I say to you, ye shall see Heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man."

¹ My brethren, hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. ² For, if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in splendid apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile apparel; ³ and ye show regard to him who is wearing the splendid apparel, and say, "Sit here in a good place"; and say to the poor man, "Stand, or sit under my footstool"; ⁴ do ye not make a distinction among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? ⁵ Hearken, my beloved brethren, did not God choose the poor of the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those who love Him? ⁶ But ye dishonored the poor man! Do not the rich oppress you, and do they not drag you before the judgment-seats? ⁷ Do they not blaspheme the worthy name by which ye were called? ⁸ If, however, ye fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," ye do well; ⁹ but, if ye show respect to persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. ¹⁰ For whosoever keeps the whole law, but stumbles in one point, has become guilty of all. ¹¹ For He Who said, "Do not commit adultery," said also, "Do not kill." Now, if you do not commit adultery, but kill, you have become a transgressor of the law. ¹² So speak, and so do, as those who are about to be judged by a law of liberty. ¹³ For the judgment is without mercy to him who showed no mercy: mercy exults over judgment. ¹⁴ What profit is it, my brethren, if anyone says he has faith, but has not works; can such faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or a sister be naked, and in want of daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you say to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," but ye give them not the things needful for the body, what does it profit? ¹⁷ Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. ¹⁸ But some one will say, "You have faith, and I have works": show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ¹⁹ You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder! ²⁰ But are you willing to know, O vain man, that faith apart from works is worthless? ²¹ Was not Abraham, our father, justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? ²² You see that faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith perfected; ²³ and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness"; and he was called "God's Friend." ²⁴ Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only. ²⁵ And, in like manner, was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers, and sent them out by another way? ²⁶ For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.

¹⁵ "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and, when he is made such, ye make him a son of Hell twofold more than yourselves.

³ All, therefore, whatsoever they bid you, do and observe; but do not according to their works; for they say and do not.

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one who believes on Him should not perish, but have eternal life;

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, ²³ meekness, continence; against such there is no law.

²⁶ Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath;

¹ Now we, the strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. ² Let each one of us please his neighbor in that which is good for his edification; ³ for even Christ pleased not Himself; but, as it has been written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on Me." ⁴ For whatsoever things were written in former times were written for our instruction, that we through patience and through consolation of the Scriptures may have hope. ⁵ Now the God of patience and of consolation grant you to be of the same mind one with another, according to Christ Jesus: ⁶ that with one accord ye may, with one mouth, glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁷ Wherefore, receive one another, as Christ also received you, to the glory of God. ⁸ For I say that Christ hath become a minister of the circumcision, in behalf of God's truth, that He might confirm the promises made to the fathers; ⁹ and that the gentiles might glorify God for His mercy; as it has been written, "For this cause, I will confess to Thee among the gentiles; and to Thy name will I sing praise." ¹⁰ And again He saith, "Rejoice, ye gentiles with His people." ¹¹ And again, "Praise the Lord, all ye gentiles, and let all the people extol Him." ¹² And again Isaiah says, "There shall be the Root of Jesse, and He Who riseth up to rule over the gentiles, on Him will the gentiles hope." ¹³ Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound In hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit. ¹⁴ And I myself also have become persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. ¹⁵ But I wrote to you the more boldly in part, as reminding you again, because of the grace which was given to me from God, ¹⁶ that I should be a minister of Jesus Christ to the gentiles, ministering the Gospel of God, that the offering up of the gentiles may become acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit. ¹⁷ I have, therefore, my glorying in Christ Jesus as to the things pertaining to God. ¹⁸ For I will venture to speak only of the things which God wrought through me for the obedience of the gentiles, by word and deed, ¹⁹ in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and around as far as Illyricum, I have fully dispensed the Gospel of Christ; ²⁰ and, making it my aim so to proclaim the Gospel—not where Christ was already named—that I might not build upon another's foundation; ²¹ but, as it has been written, "Those shall see, to whom nothing was announced concerning Him; and those who have not heard shall understand." ²² Wherefore, also, I was being hindered many times from coming to you; ²³ but now, having no longer any place in these regions; and, having a desire for many years to come to you, ²⁴ whensoever I go to Spain (for I am hoping, in passing through, to see you, and to be sent on my way thither by you, if first I have been satisfied, in a measure, with your company); ²⁵ but now I am going to Jerusalem, ministering to the saints. ²⁶ For Macedonia and Achaia were well pleased to make a certain contribution to the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem. ²⁷ Indeed, they were well pleased, and their debtors they are; for, if the gentiles were partakers of their spiritual things, they ought also to minister to them in carnal things. ²⁸ After having completed this, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you into Spain; ²⁹ and I know that, when coming to you, I will come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ. ³⁰ And I beseech you, brethren, by our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God for me; ³¹ that I may be delivered from the unbelieving in Judea, and that my ministry to Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints; ³² that, coming to you in joy through the will of God, I may with you be refreshed. ³³ And the God of peace be with you all. Amen.