TSK · Romans 12:3

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

You have seen a man wise in his own opinion– there is more hope for a fool than for him.

He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the LORD really wants from you: He wants you to carry out justice, to love faithfulness, and to live obediently before your God.

The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this:‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers– or even like this tax collector.

Through him we have received grace and our apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles on behalf of his name.

For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.

The Circumstances of Your Calling Nevertheless, as the Lord has assigned to each one, as God has called each person, so must he live. I give this sort of direction in all the churches.

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me has not been in vain. In fact, I worked harder than all of them– yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

For how were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this injustice!

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

When reading this, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

And even though you were dead in your transgressions and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he nevertheless made you alive with him, having forgiven all your transgressions.

Conduct of Women Likewise the women are to dress in suitable apparel, with modesty and self-control. Their adornment must not be with braided hair and gold or pearls or expensive clothing,

Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in endurance.

Encourage younger men likewise to be self-controlled,

But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says,“God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”

Service, Suffering, and Judgment For the culmination of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of prayer.

In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

Diotrephes the Troublemaker I wrote something to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not acknowledge us.