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

When the poor speak, they have to be polite, but when the rich answer, they are rude.

"Happy are those who know they are spiritually poor; the Kingdom of heaven belongs to them!

Submit yourselves to one another because of your reverence for Christ.

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.

No matter how much a lazy person may want something, he will never get it. A hard worker will get everything he wants.

Show me someone who does a good job, and I will show you someone who is better than most and worthy of the company of kings.

Work hard at whatever you do, because there will be no action, no thought, no knowledge, no wisdom in the world of the dead---and that is where you are going.

Work hard and do not be lazy. Serve the Lord with a heart full of devotion.

So let us not become tired of doing good; for if we do not give up, the time will come when we will reap the harvest.