But when you help a needy person, do it in such a way that even your closest friend will not know about it.

"Yet my people and I cannot really give you anything, because everything is a gift from you, and we have only given back what is yours already.

Reverence for the LORD is an education in itself. You must be humble before you can ever receive honors.

All of us have been sinful; even our best actions are filthy through and through. Because of our sins we are like leaves that wither and are blown away by the wind.

But by God's grace I am what I am, and the grace that he gave me was not without effect. On the contrary, I have worked harder than any of the other apostles, although it was not really my own doing, but God's grace working with me.

In the same way you younger people must submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you must put on the apron of humility, to serve one another; for the scripture says, "God resists the proud, but shows favor to the humble."

Humble yourselves, then, under God's mighty hand, so that he will lift you up in his own good time.