Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.

Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him— the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number. He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields. He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety. He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success. . . .

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble than to divide the spoil with the proud.

In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

And afterward, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

But our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite. For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made. I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart. I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners, bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal them.” . . .

who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.

Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.

He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.

Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Is any one of you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.

To fear the LORD is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride, evil conduct, and perverse speech.

Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.

And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”

to malign no one, and to be peaceable and gentle, showing full consideration to everyone.

For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.

“Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”

Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.

After He had said this, He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him up.” His disciples replied, “Lord, if he is sleeping, he will get better.” They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus. So Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead,

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

The greatest among you shall be your servant.

Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.

that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.