For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”

But when Jesus discerned their innermost thoughts, he took a child, had him stand by his side,

so he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’

Therefore he said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.

and carrying his own cross he went out to the place called “The Place of the Skull” (called in Aramaic Golgotha).

For the one who eats and drinks without careful regard for the body eats and drinks judgment against himself.

But if there is no interpreter, he should be silent in the church. Let him speak to himself and to God.

And no one assumes this honor on his own initiative, but only when called to it by God, as in fact Aaron was.

But he has no root in himself and does not endure; when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he falls away.

For a while he refused, but later on he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor have regard for people,

When Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this, he said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended?

Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me.”

On the first day of the week, each of you should set aside some income and save it to the extent that God has blessed you, so that a collection will not have to be made when I come.

And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.

You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should reflect on this again: Just as he himself belongs to Christ, so too do we.

so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.