Bible Verses about “entitlement”

“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”

“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.”

“Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.”

“Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."”

“This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,”

“Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.”

“Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

“"Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,”

“neither give place to the devil.”

“For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."”

“Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.”

“He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;”

“with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;”

“One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.”

“for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;”

“and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,”

“that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;”

“and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.”

“being eager to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”

“I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,”

“until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;”

“Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.”

“but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;”

“that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;”

“from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.”

“Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.”

“for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.”

“one Lord, one faith, one baptism,”

“being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;”

“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;”

“"The King will answer them, 'Most certainly I tell you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'”

“Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;”

“Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.”

“one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.”

“You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.”

“Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?”

“Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?”

“You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.”

“who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.”

“I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.'”

“This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,”

“You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.”

“A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.”

“These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."”

“Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.”

“Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.”

“But you did not learn Christ that way;”

“if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:”

“"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.”

“But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.”