1 Corinthians 10:33
10:33 just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit
of many, so that they may be saved.
1 Corinthians 12:7
12:7 To each person the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the benefit of all.
1 Corinthians 13:3
13:3 If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast,
but do not have love, I receive no benefit.
1 Corinthians 13:1
The Way of Love
13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 12:21
12:21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you,” nor in turn can the head say to the foot, “I do not need you.”
Jeremiah 16:19
16:19 Then I said,
“Lord, you give me strength and protect me.
You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble.
Nations from all over the earth
will come to you and say,
‘Our ancestors had nothing but false gods –
worthless idols that could not help them at all.
Jeremiah 23:32
23:32 I, the
Lord, affirm
that I am opposed to those prophets who dream up lies and report them. They are misleading my people with their reckless lies.
I did not send them. I did not commission them. They are not helping these people at all.
I, the
Lord, affirm it!”
Matthew 16:26
16:26 For what does it benefit a person
if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
Matthew 16:2
16:2 He
said, “When evening comes you say, ‘It will be fair weather, because the sky is red,’
Matthew 2:14
2:14 Then he got up, took the child and his mother during
the night, and went to Egypt.
Titus 3:8
Summary of the Letter
3:8 This saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on such truths, so that those who have placed their faith in God may be intent on engaging in good works. These things are good and beneficial for all people.
Hebrews 13:9
13:9 Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings.
For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals,
which have never benefited those who participated in them.