Bible Cross References
desirous
Luke 14:10
Instead, when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that your host will come to you and say, 'Come on up, my friend, to a better place.' This will bring you honor in the presence of all the other guests.
1 Corinthians 3:7
The one who plants and the one who waters really do not matter. It is God who matters, because he makes the plant grow.
Philippians 2:1-3
1
Your life in Christ makes you strong, and his love comforts you. You have fellowship with the Spirit, and you have kindness and compassion for one another.
2
I urge you, then, to make me completely happy by having the same thoughts, sharing the same love, and being one in soul and mind.
3
Don't do anything from selfish ambition or from a cheap desire to boast, but be humble toward one another, always considering others better than yourselves.
James 4:16
But now you are proud, and you boast; all such boasting is wrong.
provoking
Galatians 5:15
But if you act like wild animals, hurting and harming each other, then watch out, or you will completely destroy one another.
James 3:14-16
14
But if in your heart you are jealous, bitter, and selfish, don't sin against the truth by boasting of your wisdom.
15
Such wisdom does not come down from heaven; it belongs to the world, it is unspiritual and demonic.
16
Where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is also disorder and every kind of evil.
1 Peter 5:5
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."