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Thematic Bible



I have shown you [with respect to] all [things] that [by] working hard in this way it is necessary to help those who are in need, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Verse ConceptsExploitationsCompassion, In ChristiansGiving To OthersBeing BlessedThe Benefits Of LaborAttitudes, to other peopleKindnessPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoverty, Causes OfRememberingStewardshipWeakness, PhysicalPriorityIndustryRole ModelsDonationsRemembering ChristHelp The WeakThe Fact Of ToilGivingHard WorkSupportHelping Those In Needboyfriendshardwork


But just as you excel in everything--in faith and in speaking and in knowledge and with all diligence and in the love from us [that is] in you--so may you excel in this grace also. Verse ConceptsFaith, Growth IneagernessAbounding, Good ThingsGenerosity, Used TowardsKnowingLove Exists Between PeopleGraceGivingReciprocitySpeechgraciousness


For who [is] greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? [Is it] not the one who reclines at the table? But I am in your midst as the one who serves. Verse ConceptsTablesJesus Christ, Meekness OfChrist, Character OfHumility Of ChristReclining To EatServing PeopleServing






If then I--[your] Lord and Teacher--wash your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that just as I have done for you, you also do.


For even Christ did not please himself, but just as it is written, "The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me." Verse ConceptsGiving, Of OneselfInsultsSelfishnessUnselfishnessHumility Of ChristProphecies Concerning ChristNot Pleasing People



For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps, who did not commit sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth, who [when he] was reviled, did not revile in return; [when] suffering, he did not threaten, but entrusted [himself] to the one who judges justly,

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in his footsteps, who did not commit sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth,


but as the one who called you [is] holy, [you] yourselves be holy in all [your] conduct, for it is written, "You will be holy, because I [am] holy."

For consider the one who endured such hostility by sinners against himself, so that you will not grow weary in your souls [and] give up. You have not yet resisted to the point of [shedding your] blood [as you] struggle against sin.