Scriptural Encouragement & Exhortation

Friday, March 28, 2008

 

Paradoxes

 

There is one who pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, but has great wealth…when I am weak, then I am strong…Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied…unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal…He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it…For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it…And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name's sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last; and the last, first…Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise…Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: 'God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. ‘I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.' But the tax collector, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!' I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.

 

(Pro 13:7; 2Co 12:10; Mat 5:4-6; Joh 12:24, 25; Mat 10:39; 16:25; 19:29, 30; 1Co 3:18; Luk 18:10-14)

 

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