When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

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Proverbs 11:2

If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one officials protects another official, and higher officials protect them.

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Ecclesiastes 5:8

If you fall to pieces in a crisis, there wasn’t much to you in the first place.

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Proverbs 24:10

Be prepared. You’re up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it’s all over but the shouting you’ll still be on your feet. Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation are more than words. Learn how to apply them. You’ll need them throughout your life. God’s Word is an indispensable weapon. In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. Pray hard and long. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep each other’s spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out.

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Ephesians 6:13-18

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

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Matthew 5:44

For man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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Matthew 4:4

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand in the presence of kings. He will not stand in the presence of unknown men.

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Proverbs 22:29

Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don’t see many of “the brightest and the best” among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That’s why we have the saying, “If you’re going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God.

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1 Corinthians 1:28 MSG

Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.

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Ephesians 5:11

Who made the human mouth? Who makes him mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I? Now go! I will help you speak and I will teach you what to say.

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Exodus 4:11-12

For it is God’s will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.

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1 Peter 2:15

The purity of silver and gold is tested by putting them in the fire; the purity of human hearts is tested by giving them a little flame.

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Proverbs 27:21

Remember the words of our Lord Jesus for he said, it is more blessed to give than to receive.

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Acts 20:35

Better a poor man who lives with integrity than someone who has deceitful lips and is a fool.

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Proverbs 19:1

But when He heard this, He said, “Those who are well don’t need a doctor, but the sick do. Go and learn what this means.”

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Matthew 9:12-13

But they set an ambush for themselves; they attack their own lives. Such are the paths of all who profit dishonestly; it takes the lives of those who receive it.

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Proverbs 1:18

If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will find it.

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Matthew 16:25

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

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Galatians 6:9

Put God in charge of your work, then what you’ve planned will take place.

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Proverbs 16:3 MSG

As Jesus went on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office, and he said to Him, ‘Follow me!’ So he got up and followed him.

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Matthew 9:9