2 Timothy 3:2 因为那时，人要专顾自己，贪爱钱财，自夸，狂傲，谤讟，违背父母，忘恩负义，心不圣洁，

3:2 MSG

逐节对照

新标点和合本 - 因为那时，人要专顾自己，贪爱钱财，自夸，狂傲，谤讟，违背父母，忘恩负义，心不圣洁，
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 那时人会专爱自己，贪爱钱财，自夸，狂傲，毁谤，违背父母，忘恩负义，心不圣洁，
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 那时人会专爱自己，贪爱钱财，自夸，狂傲，毁谤，违背父母，忘恩负义，心不圣洁，
当代译本 - 因为那时的人都自私自利、贪爱钱财、狂妄自夸、骄傲自负、毁谤亵渎、违背父母、忘恩负义、心不圣洁、
圣经新译本 - 那时，人会专爱自己、贪爱钱财、自夸、高傲、亵渎、悖逆父母、忘恩负义、不圣洁、
中文标准译本 - 因为人们将会爱自己、爱钱财，又自夸、又骄傲，亵渎神、悖逆父母、忘恩负义、毫不圣洁、
现代标点和合本 - 因为那时人要专顾自己，贪爱钱财，自夸，狂傲，谤讟，违背父母，忘恩负义，心不圣洁，
和合本（拼音版） - 因为那时人要专顾自己、贪爱钱财、自夸、狂傲、谤讟、违背父母、忘恩负义、心不圣洁、
New International Version - People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
New International Reader's Version - People will love themselves. They will love money. They will brag and be proud. They will tear others down. They will not obey their parents. They won’t be thankful or holy.
English Standard Version - For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
New Living Translation - For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred.
Christian Standard Bible - For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
New American Standard Bible - For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
New King James Version - For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Amplified Bible - For people will be lovers of self [narcissistic, self-focused], lovers of money [impelled by greed], boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane,
American Standard Version - For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
King James Version - For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
New English Translation - For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
World English Bible - For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
新標點和合本 - 因為那時，人要專顧自己，貪愛錢財，自誇，狂傲，謗讟，違背父母，忘恩負義，心不聖潔，
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 那時人會專愛自己，貪愛錢財，自誇，狂傲，毀謗，違背父母，忘恩負義，心不聖潔，
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 那時人會專愛自己，貪愛錢財，自誇，狂傲，毀謗，違背父母，忘恩負義，心不聖潔，
當代譯本 - 因為那時的人都自私自利、貪愛錢財、狂妄自誇、驕傲自負、譭謗褻瀆、違背父母、忘恩負義、心不聖潔、
聖經新譯本 - 那時，人會專愛自己、貪愛錢財、自誇、高傲、褻瀆、悖逆父母、忘恩負義、不聖潔、
呂振中譯本 - 因為人必逕愛自己、愛銀錢、矜誇、狂傲、毁謗、悖逆父母、忘恩負義、不虔聖、
中文標準譯本 - 因為人們將會愛自己、愛錢財，又自誇、又驕傲，褻瀆神、悖逆父母、忘恩負義、毫不聖潔、
現代標點和合本 - 因為那時人要專顧自己，貪愛錢財，自誇，狂傲，謗讟，違背父母，忘恩負義，心不聖潔，
文理和合譯本 - 蓋人將自私、好利、矜誇、驕傲、謗讟、逆親、辜恩、邪慝、
文理委辦譯本 - 人將自私、好利、驕泰、訕謗、逆親、辜恩、斁倫、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 人惟自顧、好利、矜誇、驕傲、訕謗、逆親、辜負、不虔敬、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 人將逞其私欲、孳孳為利、驕矜自慢輕薄褻瀆、不孝父母、忘恩負義、不虔不敬、
Nueva Versión Internacional - La gente estará llena de egoísmo y avaricia; serán jactanciosos, arrogantes, blasfemos, desobedientes a los padres, ingratos, impíos,
현대인의 성경 - 그 때에는 사람들이 자기를 사랑하고 돈을 사랑하며 뽐내고 교만하고 하나님을 모독하고 부모에게 순종하지 않을 것입니다. 그들은 감사할 줄도 모르고 거룩하지도 않으며
Новый Русский Перевод - Люди станут эгоистичны, корыстны, хвастливы, горды, кощунники, непослушны родителям, неблагодарны, нечестивы,
Восточный перевод - Люди станут эгоистичны, корыстны, хвастливы, горды, злоречивы, непослушны родителям, неблагодарны, нечестивы, бездушны,
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Люди станут эгоистичны, корыстны, хвастливы, горды, злоречивы, непослушны родителям, неблагодарны, нечестивы, бездушны,
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Люди станут эгоистичны, корыстны, хвастливы, горды, злоречивы, непослушны родителям, неблагодарны, нечестивы, бездушны,
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Les hommes seront égoïstes, avides d’argent, vantards et prétentieux. Ils parleront de Dieu d’une manière injurieuse et n’auront pas d’égards pour leurs parents. Ils seront ingrats, dépourvus de respect pour ce qui est sacré,
リビングバイブル - 自分だけを愛し、また、お金がすべてだと考える風潮がはびこります。その時人々は、高慢な者、大言壮語する者、神をあざける者、両親に従わない者、感謝することを知らない者、神を恐れない者になり、
Nestle Aland 28 - ἔσονται γὰρ οἱ ἄνθρωποι φίλαυτοι φιλάργυροι ἀλαζόνες ὑπερήφανοι βλάσφημοι, γονεῦσιν ἀπειθεῖς, ἀχάριστοι ἀνόσιοι
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἔσονται γὰρ οἱ ἄνθρωποι φίλαυτοι, φιλάργυροι, ἀλαζόνες, ὑπερήφανοι, βλάσφημοι, γονεῦσιν ἀπειθεῖς, ἀχάριστοι, ἀνόσιοι,
Nova Versão Internacional - Os homens serão egoístas, avarentos, presunçosos, arrogantes, blasfemos, desobedientes aos pais, ingratos, ímpios,
Hoffnung für alle - Die Menschen werden nur sich selbst und ihr Geld lieben. Sie werden überheblich und anmaßend sein, Gott verlästern und sich weigern, auf ihre Eltern zu hören. Dank und Ehrfurcht kennen sie nicht.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Vì người ta đều vị kỷ, tham tiền, khoe khoang, hợm hĩnh, phỉ báng, nghịch cha mẹ, phụ bạc, vô đạo,
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ผู้คนจะรักตนเอง รักเงิน ชอบโอ้อวด หยิ่งยโส ชอบด่าว่า ไม่เชื่อฟังพ่อแม่ อกตัญญู ไม่บริสุทธิ์
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ผู้คนจะเห็นแก่ตัวอย่างยิ่ง เห็นแก่เงิน ขี้อวด หยิ่งยโส ดูหมิ่นผู้อื่น ไม่เชื่อฟังบิดามารดา ไม่รู้คุณคน ไม่นับถือพระเจ้า

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Psalms 52:1 - Why do you brag of evil, “Big Man”? God’s mercy carries the day. You scheme catastrophe; your tongue cuts razor-sharp, artisan in lies. You love evil more than good, you call black white. You love malicious gossip, you foul-mouth.
James 2:8 - You do well when you complete the Royal Rule of the Scriptures: “Love others as you love yourself.” But if you play up to these so-called important people, you go against the Rule and stand convicted by it. You can’t pick and choose in these things, specializing in keeping one or two things in God’s law and ignoring others. The same God who said, “Don’t commit adultery,” also said, “Don’t murder.” If you don’t commit adultery but go ahead and murder, do you think your non-adultery will cancel out your murder? No, you’re a murderer, period.
Luke 16:14 - When the Pharisees, a money-obsessed bunch, heard him say these things, they rolled their eyes, dismissing him as hopelessly out of touch. So Jesus spoke to them: “You are masters at making yourselves look good in front of others, but God knows what’s behind the appearance. What society sees and calls monumental, God sees through and calls monstrous. God’s Law and the Prophets climaxed in John; Now it’s all kingdom of God—the glad news and compelling invitation to every man and woman. The sky will disintegrate and the earth dissolve before a single letter of God’s Law wears out. Using the legalities of divorce as a cover for lust is adultery; Using the legalities of marriage as a cover for lust is adultery.
Revelation 13:5 - The Beast had a loud mouth, boastful and blasphemous. It could do anything it wanted for forty-two months. It yelled blasphemies against God, blasphemed his Name, blasphemed his Church, especially those already dwelling with God in Heaven. It was permitted to make war on God’s holy people and conquer them. It held absolute sway over all tribes and peoples, tongues and races. Everyone on earth whose name was not written from the world’s foundation in the slaughtered Lamb’s Book of Life will worship the Beast.
Revelation 13:1 - And the Dragon stood on the shore of the sea. I saw a Beast rising from the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads—on each horn a crown, and each head inscribed with a blasphemous name. The Beast I saw looked like a leopard with bear paws and a lion’s mouth. The Dragon turned over its power to it, its throne and great authority.
Romans 15:1 - Those of us who are strong and able in the faith need to step in and lend a hand to those who falter, and not just do what is most convenient for us. Strength is for service, not status. Each one of us needs to look after the good of the people around us, asking ourselves, “How can I help?”
Romans 15:3 - That’s exactly what Jesus did. He didn’t make it easy for himself by avoiding people’s troubles, but waded right in and helped out. “I took on the troubles of the troubled,” is the way Scripture puts it. Even if it was written in Scripture long ago, you can be sure it’s written for us. God wants the combination of his steady, constant calling and warm, personal counsel in Scripture to come to characterize us, keeping us alert for whatever he will do next. May our dependably steady and warmly personal God develop maturity in you so that you get along with each other as well as Jesus gets along with us all. Then we’ll be a choir—not our voices only, but our very lives singing in harmony in a stunning anthem to the God and Father of our Master Jesus!
Isaiah 10:15 - Does an ax take over from the one who swings it? Does a saw act more important than the sawyer? As if a shovel did its shoveling by using a ditch digger! As if a hammer used the carpenter to pound nails! Therefore the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, will send a debilitating disease on his robust Assyrian fighters. Under the canopy of God’s bright glory a fierce fire will break out. Israel’s Light will burst into a conflagration. The Holy will explode into a firestorm, And in one day burn to cinders every last Assyrian thornbush. God will destroy the splendid trees and lush gardens. The Assyrian body and soul will waste away to nothing like a disease-ridden invalid. A child could count what’s left of the trees on the fingers of his two hands. * * *
James 4:16 - As it is, you are full of your grandiose selves. All such vaunting self-importance is evil. In fact, if you know the right thing to do and don’t do it, that, for you, is evil.
Colossians 3:5 - And that means killing off everything connected with that way of death: sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy. That’s a life shaped by things and feelings instead of by God. It’s because of this kind of thing that God is about to explode in anger. It wasn’t long ago that you were doing all that stuff and not knowing any better. But you know better now, so make sure it’s all gone for good: bad temper, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk.
2 Peter 2:12 - These people are nothing but brute beasts, born in the wild, predators on the prowl. In the very act of bringing down others with their ignorant blasphemies, they themselves will be brought down, losers in the end. Their evil will boomerang on them. They’re so despicable and addicted to pleasure that they indulge in wild parties, carousing in broad daylight. They’re obsessed with adultery, compulsive in sin, seducing every vulnerable soul they come upon. Their specialty is greed, and they’re experts at it. Dead souls!
Daniel 11:36 - “‘Meanwhile, the king of the north will do whatever he pleases. He’ll puff himself up and posture himself as greater than any god. He will even dare to brag and boast in defiance of the God of gods. And he’ll get by with it for a while—until this time of wrathful judgment is completed, for what is decreed must be done. He will have no respect for the gods of his ancestors, not even that popular favorite among women, Adonis. Contemptuous of every god and goddess, the king of the north will puff himself up greater than all of them. He’ll even stoop to despising the God of the holy ones, and in the place where God is worshiped he will put on exhibit, with a lavish show of silver and gold and jewels, a new god that no one has ever heard of. Marching under the banner of a strange god, he will attack the key fortresses. He will promote everyone who falls into line behind this god, putting them in positions of power and paying them off with grants of land.
Luke 12:15 - Speaking to the people, he went on, “Take care! Protect yourself against the least bit of greed. Life is not defined by what you have, even when you have a lot.”
2 Peter 2:15 - They’ve left the main road and are directionless, having taken the way of Balaam, son of Beor, the prophet who turned profiteer, a connoisseur of evil. But Balaam was stopped in his wayward tracks: A dumb animal spoke in a human voice and prevented the prophet’s craziness.
Psalms 10:3 - The wicked are windbags, the swindlers have foul breath. The wicked snub God, their noses stuck high in the air. Their graffiti are scrawled on the walls: “Catch us if you can!” “God is dead.”

逐节对照

交叉引用

新标点和合本 - 因为那时，人要专顾自己，贪爱钱财，自夸，狂傲，谤讟，违背父母，忘恩负义，心不圣洁，
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 那时人会专爱自己，贪爱钱财，自夸，狂傲，毁谤，违背父母，忘恩负义，心不圣洁，
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 那时人会专爱自己，贪爱钱财，自夸，狂傲，毁谤，违背父母，忘恩负义，心不圣洁，
当代译本 - 因为那时的人都自私自利、贪爱钱财、狂妄自夸、骄傲自负、毁谤亵渎、违背父母、忘恩负义、心不圣洁、
圣经新译本 - 那时，人会专爱自己、贪爱钱财、自夸、高傲、亵渎、悖逆父母、忘恩负义、不圣洁、
中文标准译本 - 因为人们将会爱自己、爱钱财，又自夸、又骄傲，亵渎神、悖逆父母、忘恩负义、毫不圣洁、
现代标点和合本 - 因为那时人要专顾自己，贪爱钱财，自夸，狂傲，谤讟，违背父母，忘恩负义，心不圣洁，
和合本（拼音版） - 因为那时人要专顾自己、贪爱钱财、自夸、狂傲、谤讟、违背父母、忘恩负义、心不圣洁、
New International Version - People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
New International Reader's Version - People will love themselves. They will love money. They will brag and be proud. They will tear others down. They will not obey their parents. They won’t be thankful or holy.
English Standard Version - For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
New Living Translation - For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred.
Christian Standard Bible - For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
New American Standard Bible - For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
New King James Version - For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Amplified Bible - For people will be lovers of self [narcissistic, self-focused], lovers of money [impelled by greed], boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane,
American Standard Version - For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
King James Version - For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
New English Translation - For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
World English Bible - For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
新標點和合本 - 因為那時，人要專顧自己，貪愛錢財，自誇，狂傲，謗讟，違背父母，忘恩負義，心不聖潔，
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 那時人會專愛自己，貪愛錢財，自誇，狂傲，毀謗，違背父母，忘恩負義，心不聖潔，
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 那時人會專愛自己，貪愛錢財，自誇，狂傲，毀謗，違背父母，忘恩負義，心不聖潔，
當代譯本 - 因為那時的人都自私自利、貪愛錢財、狂妄自誇、驕傲自負、譭謗褻瀆、違背父母、忘恩負義、心不聖潔、
聖經新譯本 - 那時，人會專愛自己、貪愛錢財、自誇、高傲、褻瀆、悖逆父母、忘恩負義、不聖潔、
呂振中譯本 - 因為人必逕愛自己、愛銀錢、矜誇、狂傲、毁謗、悖逆父母、忘恩負義、不虔聖、
中文標準譯本 - 因為人們將會愛自己、愛錢財，又自誇、又驕傲，褻瀆神、悖逆父母、忘恩負義、毫不聖潔、
現代標點和合本 - 因為那時人要專顧自己，貪愛錢財，自誇，狂傲，謗讟，違背父母，忘恩負義，心不聖潔，
文理和合譯本 - 蓋人將自私、好利、矜誇、驕傲、謗讟、逆親、辜恩、邪慝、
文理委辦譯本 - 人將自私、好利、驕泰、訕謗、逆親、辜恩、斁倫、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 人惟自顧、好利、矜誇、驕傲、訕謗、逆親、辜負、不虔敬、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 人將逞其私欲、孳孳為利、驕矜自慢輕薄褻瀆、不孝父母、忘恩負義、不虔不敬、
Nueva Versión Internacional - La gente estará llena de egoísmo y avaricia; serán jactanciosos, arrogantes, blasfemos, desobedientes a los padres, ingratos, impíos,
현대인의 성경 - 그 때에는 사람들이 자기를 사랑하고 돈을 사랑하며 뽐내고 교만하고 하나님을 모독하고 부모에게 순종하지 않을 것입니다. 그들은 감사할 줄도 모르고 거룩하지도 않으며
Новый Русский Перевод - Люди станут эгоистичны, корыстны, хвастливы, горды, кощунники, непослушны родителям, неблагодарны, нечестивы,
Восточный перевод - Люди станут эгоистичны, корыстны, хвастливы, горды, злоречивы, непослушны родителям, неблагодарны, нечестивы, бездушны,
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Люди станут эгоистичны, корыстны, хвастливы, горды, злоречивы, непослушны родителям, неблагодарны, нечестивы, бездушны,
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Люди станут эгоистичны, корыстны, хвастливы, горды, злоречивы, непослушны родителям, неблагодарны, нечестивы, бездушны,
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Les hommes seront égoïstes, avides d’argent, vantards et prétentieux. Ils parleront de Dieu d’une manière injurieuse et n’auront pas d’égards pour leurs parents. Ils seront ingrats, dépourvus de respect pour ce qui est sacré,
リビングバイブル - 自分だけを愛し、また、お金がすべてだと考える風潮がはびこります。その時人々は、高慢な者、大言壮語する者、神をあざける者、両親に従わない者、感謝することを知らない者、神を恐れない者になり、
Nestle Aland 28 - ἔσονται γὰρ οἱ ἄνθρωποι φίλαυτοι φιλάργυροι ἀλαζόνες ὑπερήφανοι βλάσφημοι, γονεῦσιν ἀπειθεῖς, ἀχάριστοι ἀνόσιοι
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ἔσονται γὰρ οἱ ἄνθρωποι φίλαυτοι, φιλάργυροι, ἀλαζόνες, ὑπερήφανοι, βλάσφημοι, γονεῦσιν ἀπειθεῖς, ἀχάριστοι, ἀνόσιοι,
Nova Versão Internacional - Os homens serão egoístas, avarentos, presunçosos, arrogantes, blasfemos, desobedientes aos pais, ingratos, ímpios,
Hoffnung für alle - Die Menschen werden nur sich selbst und ihr Geld lieben. Sie werden überheblich und anmaßend sein, Gott verlästern und sich weigern, auf ihre Eltern zu hören. Dank und Ehrfurcht kennen sie nicht.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Vì người ta đều vị kỷ, tham tiền, khoe khoang, hợm hĩnh, phỉ báng, nghịch cha mẹ, phụ bạc, vô đạo,
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - ผู้คนจะรักตนเอง รักเงิน ชอบโอ้อวด หยิ่งยโส ชอบด่าว่า ไม่เชื่อฟังพ่อแม่ อกตัญญู ไม่บริสุทธิ์
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Psalms 52:1 - Why do you brag of evil, “Big Man”? God’s mercy carries the day. You scheme catastrophe; your tongue cuts razor-sharp, artisan in lies. You love evil more than good, you call black white. You love malicious gossip, you foul-mouth.
James 2:8 - You do well when you complete the Royal Rule of the Scriptures: “Love others as you love yourself.” But if you play up to these so-called important people, you go against the Rule and stand convicted by it. You can’t pick and choose in these things, specializing in keeping one or two things in God’s law and ignoring others. The same God who said, “Don’t commit adultery,” also said, “Don’t murder.” If you don’t commit adultery but go ahead and murder, do you think your non-adultery will cancel out your murder? No, you’re a murderer, period.
Luke 16:14 - When the Pharisees, a money-obsessed bunch, heard him say these things, they rolled their eyes, dismissing him as hopelessly out of touch. So Jesus spoke to them: “You are masters at making yourselves look good in front of others, but God knows what’s behind the appearance. What society sees and calls monumental, God sees through and calls monstrous. God’s Law and the Prophets climaxed in John; Now it’s all kingdom of God—the glad news and compelling invitation to every man and woman. The sky will disintegrate and the earth dissolve before a single letter of God’s Law wears out. Using the legalities of divorce as a cover for lust is adultery; Using the legalities of marriage as a cover for lust is adultery.
Revelation 13:5 - The Beast had a loud mouth, boastful and blasphemous. It could do anything it wanted for forty-two months. It yelled blasphemies against God, blasphemed his Name, blasphemed his Church, especially those already dwelling with God in Heaven. It was permitted to make war on God’s holy people and conquer them. It held absolute sway over all tribes and peoples, tongues and races. Everyone on earth whose name was not written from the world’s foundation in the slaughtered Lamb’s Book of Life will worship the Beast.
Revelation 13:1 - And the Dragon stood on the shore of the sea. I saw a Beast rising from the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads—on each horn a crown, and each head inscribed with a blasphemous name. The Beast I saw looked like a leopard with bear paws and a lion’s mouth. The Dragon turned over its power to it, its throne and great authority.
Romans 15:1 - Those of us who are strong and able in the faith need to step in and lend a hand to those who falter, and not just do what is most convenient for us. Strength is for service, not status. Each one of us needs to look after the good of the people around us, asking ourselves, “How can I help?”
Romans 15:3 - That’s exactly what Jesus did. He didn’t make it easy for himself by avoiding people’s troubles, but waded right in and helped out. “I took on the troubles of the troubled,” is the way Scripture puts it. Even if it was written in Scripture long ago, you can be sure it’s written for us. God wants the combination of his steady, constant calling and warm, personal counsel in Scripture to come to characterize us, keeping us alert for whatever he will do next. May our dependably steady and warmly personal God develop maturity in you so that you get along with each other as well as Jesus gets along with us all. Then we’ll be a choir—not our voices only, but our very lives singing in harmony in a stunning anthem to the God and Father of our Master Jesus!
Isaiah 10:15 - Does an ax take over from the one who swings it? Does a saw act more important than the sawyer? As if a shovel did its shoveling by using a ditch digger! As if a hammer used the carpenter to pound nails! Therefore the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, will send a debilitating disease on his robust Assyrian fighters. Under the canopy of God’s bright glory a fierce fire will break out. Israel’s Light will burst into a conflagration. The Holy will explode into a firestorm, And in one day burn to cinders every last Assyrian thornbush. God will destroy the splendid trees and lush gardens. The Assyrian body and soul will waste away to nothing like a disease-ridden invalid. A child could count what’s left of the trees on the fingers of his two hands. * * *
James 4:16 - As it is, you are full of your grandiose selves. All such vaunting self-importance is evil. In fact, if you know the right thing to do and don’t do it, that, for you, is evil.
Colossians 3:5 - And that means killing off everything connected with that way of death: sexual promiscuity, impurity, lust, doing whatever you feel like whenever you feel like it, and grabbing whatever attracts your fancy. That’s a life shaped by things and feelings instead of by God. It’s because of this kind of thing that God is about to explode in anger. It wasn’t long ago that you were doing all that stuff and not knowing any better. But you know better now, so make sure it’s all gone for good: bad temper, irritability, meanness, profanity, dirty talk.
2 Peter 2:12 - These people are nothing but brute beasts, born in the wild, predators on the prowl. In the very act of bringing down others with their ignorant blasphemies, they themselves will be brought down, losers in the end. Their evil will boomerang on them. They’re so despicable and addicted to pleasure that they indulge in wild parties, carousing in broad daylight. They’re obsessed with adultery, compulsive in sin, seducing every vulnerable soul they come upon. Their specialty is greed, and they’re experts at it. Dead souls!
Daniel 11:36 - “‘Meanwhile, the king of the north will do whatever he pleases. He’ll puff himself up and posture himself as greater than any god. He will even dare to brag and boast in defiance of the God of gods. And he’ll get by with it for a while—until this time of wrathful judgment is completed, for what is decreed must be done. He will have no respect for the gods of his ancestors, not even that popular favorite among women, Adonis. Contemptuous of every god and goddess, the king of the north will puff himself up greater than all of them. He’ll even stoop to despising the God of the holy ones, and in the place where God is worshiped he will put on exhibit, with a lavish show of silver and gold and jewels, a new god that no one has ever heard of. Marching under the banner of a strange god, he will attack the key fortresses. He will promote everyone who falls into line behind this god, putting them in positions of power and paying them off with grants of land.
Luke 12:15 - Speaking to the people, he went on, “Take care! Protect yourself against the least bit of greed. Life is not defined by what you have, even when you have a lot.”
2 Peter 2:15 - They’ve left the main road and are directionless, having taken the way of Balaam, son of Beor, the prophet who turned profiteer, a connoisseur of evil. But Balaam was stopped in his wayward tracks: A dumb animal spoke in a human voice and prevented the prophet’s craziness.
Psalms 10:3 - The wicked are windbags, the swindlers have foul breath. The wicked snub God, their noses stuck high in the air. Their graffiti are scrawled on the walls: “Catch us if you can!” “God is dead.”