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

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Proverbs 11:2

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

Surely, the practice of extortion turns a wise person into a fool, and a bribe destroys the mind.

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Ecclesiastes 7:7

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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James 1:27

There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.

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Proverbs 14:12

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

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

Make this your common practice: Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. The prayer of a person living right with God is something powerful to be reckoned with. Elijah, for instance, human just like us, prayed hard that it wouldn’t rain, and it didn’t—not a drop for three and a half years. Then he prayed that it would rain, and it did. The showers came and everything started growing again.

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James 5:18-18

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies, you anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows.

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Psalm 23:5

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

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1 John 3:16

Become wise by walking with the wise; hang out with fools and watch your life fall to pieces.

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Proverbs 13:20 MSG

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

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Matthew 5:44

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

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Ephesians 5:11

Bless your enemies; no cursing under your breath. Laugh with your happy friends when they’re happy, share tears when they’re down. Get along with each other; don’t be stuck-up. Make friends with nobodies; don’t be the great somebody.

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Romans 12:15 MSG

So let God work his will in you. Yell a loud no to the Devil and watch him scamper. Say a quiet yes to God and he’ll be there in no time. Quit dabbling in sin. Purify your inner life. Quit playing the field. Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. The fun and games are over. Get serious, really serious. Get down on your knees before the Master; it’s the only way you’ll get on your feet.

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James 4:9 MSG

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

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

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

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1 Corinthians 13:4-7

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