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1 Corinthians 9 16-1 Corinthians 9 17
For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.
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1 Peter 5 5-1 Peter 5 6
Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for“ God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,
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1 Corinthians 15 9-1 Corinthians 15 10
For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
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Romans 3:12
They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.”
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Romans 11:35
“ Or who has first given to Him And it shall be repaid to him?”
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Job 35:6-7
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?
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Job 22:2-3
“ Can a man be profitable to God, Though he who is wise may be profitable to himself?Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or is it gain to Him that you make your ways blameless?
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Isaiah 64:6
But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.
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Psalms 35:6-7
Let their way be dark and slippery, And let the angel of the Lord pursue them.For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit, Which they have dug without cause for my life.
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Matthew 25:30
And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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1 Chronicles 29 14-1 Chronicles 29 16
But who am I, and who are my people, That we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from You, And of Your own we have given You.For we are aliens and pilgrims before You, As were all our fathers; Our days on earth are as a shadow, And without hope.“ O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have prepared to build You a house for Your holy name is from Your hand, and is all Your own.
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Psalms 16:2-3
O my soul, you have said to the Lord,“ You are my Lord, My goodness is nothing apart from You.”As for the saints who are on the earth,“ They are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.”
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Isaiah 6:5
So I said:“ Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, The Lord of hosts.”
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Philippians 3:8-9
Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christand be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;
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Proverbs 16:2-3
All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, But the Lord weighs the spirits.Commit your works to the Lord, And your thoughts will be established.
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Matthew 25:37-40
“ Then the righteous will answer Him, saying,‘ Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink?When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?’And the King will answer and say to them,‘ Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.’
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Philemon 1:11
who once was unprofitable to you, but now is profitable to you and to me.