And he did not enter to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own,

And everyone who has this hope focused on him purifies himself, just as Jesus is pure).

Whoever then humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

“He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down now from the cross, we will believe in him!

Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

In the same way even the chief priests – together with the experts in the law – were mocking him among themselves: “He saved others, but he cannot save himself!

Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

So if Satan too is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? I ask you this because you claim that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

But when he came to his senses he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

The Jewish leaders replied, “We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!”

Now in that city was a man named Simon, who had been practicing magic and amazing the people of Samaria, claiming to be someone great.

Even some of the provincial authorities who were his friends sent a message to him, urging him not to venture into the theater.

The faith you have, keep to yourself before God. Blessed is the one who does not judge himself by what he approves.

Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

Until certain people came from James, he had been eating with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he stopped doing this and separated himself because he was afraid of those who were pro-circumcision.

Let each one examine his own work. Then he can take pride in himself and not compare himself with someone else.

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her