They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out.
(His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)
And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you and cast you out for my name's sake have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy’; but it is they who shall be put to shame.
Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.”
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
But they said, “Stand back!” And they said, “This fellow came to sojourn, and he has become the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them.” Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and drew near to break the door down.
so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority.
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners;
God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.
Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—even God.”
Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.”
“Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector. Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
who say, “Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.
He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.
Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.
Whoever corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.
What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous? Behold, God puts no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight; how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks injustice like water!
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”
He answered, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.”
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