For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

I am not trying to get praise for myself. There is one who demands it, and he also judges.

Be sober and alert. Your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is on the prowl looking for someone to devour.

But the magician Elymas (for that is the way his name is translated) opposed them, trying to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

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.

Then Jesus told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.

So he said to the worker who tended the vineyard, ‘For three years now, I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and each time I inspect it I find none. Cut it down! Why should it continue to deplete the soil?’

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.