Bible verses about "being two-faced" | Goodspeed

¹⁴ when you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! You are just a mist, which appears for a little while and then disappears.

⁸ Be calm and watchful. Your opponent the devil is prowling about like a roaring lion, wanting to devour you.

¹⁷ The wisdom that is from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, considerate, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, whole-hearted, straightforward.

¹¹ You must put on God's armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems. ¹² For we have to struggle, not with enemies of flesh and blood, but with the hierarchies, the authorities, the master-spirits of this dark world, the spirit-forces of evil on high. ¹³ So you must take God's armor, so that when the evil day comes you will be able to make a stand, and when it is all over to hold your ground. ¹⁴ Stand your ground, then, with the belt of truth around your waist, and put on uprightness as your coat of mail, ¹⁵ and on your feet put the readiness the good news of peace brings. ¹⁶ Besides all these, take faith for your shield, for with it you will be able to put out all the flaming missiles of the evil one, ¹⁷ and take salvation for your helmet, and for your sword the Spirit, which is the voice of God. ¹⁸ Use every kind of prayer and entreaty, and at every opportunity pray in the Spirit. Be on the alert about it; devote yourselves constantly to prayer for all God's people

¹⁵ Do not love the world or what is in the world. If anyone loves the world, there is no love for the Father in his heart, ¹⁶ for all that there is in the world, the things that our physical nature and our eyes crave, and the proud display of life—these do not come from the Father, but from the world; ¹⁷ and the world with its cravings is passing away, but whoever does God's will will endure forever.

⁶ But he must ask with faith, and without any doubt, for the man who doubts is like the billowing sea, driven and blown about by the wind. ⁷ Such a man must not expect to get anything from the Lord— ⁸ an irresolute person like him, who is uncertain about everything he does.

¹² Whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

¹ Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, ² "The scribes and Pharisees have taken Moses' seat. ³ So do everything they tell you, and observe it all, but do not do as they do, for they talk but do not act. ⁴ They tie up heavy loads and have them put on men's shoulders, but they will not lift a finger to move them. ⁵ They do everything they do to have men see it. They wear wide Scripture texts as charms, and they wear large tassels, ⁶ and they like the best places at dinners and the front seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and to be saluted with respect in public places, and to have men call them 'Rabbi.' ⁸ But you must not let people call you 'Rabbi,' for you have only one teacher, and you are all brothers. ⁹ And you must not call anyone on earth your father, for you have only one father, your heavenly Father. ¹⁰ And you must not let men call you master, for you have only one master, the Christ. ¹¹ But he who is greatest among you must be your servant. ¹² Whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. ¹³ "But alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you lock the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces, for you will neither go in yourselves nor let those enter who are trying to do so. ¹⁴ OMITTED TEXT ¹⁵ Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you scour land and sea to make one convert, and when he is converted you make him twice as fit for the pit as you are. ¹⁶ Alas for you, you blind guides, who say, 'If anyone swears by the sanctuary, it does not matter, but if anyone swears by the gold of the sanctuary, it is binding.' ¹⁷ Blind fools! which is greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred? ¹⁸ You say, 'If anyone swears by the altar, it does not matter, but if anyone swears by the offering that is on it, it is binding.' ¹⁹ You blind men! Which is greater, the offering, or the altar that makes the offering sacred? ²⁰ Anyone who swears by the altar is swearing by it and by everything that is on it, ²¹ and anyone who swears by the sanctuary is swearing by it and by him who dwells in it; ²² and anyone who swears by heaven is swearing by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it. ²³ "Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have let the weightier matters of the Law go—justice, mercy, and integrity. But you should have observed these, without overlooking the others. ²⁴ You blind guides! straining out the gnat, and yet swallowing the camel! ²⁵ Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. ²⁶ You blind Pharisee! You must first clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may be clean too. ²⁷ Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you are like white-washed tombs! They look well on the outside, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead, and all that is unclean. ²⁸ So you outwardly appear to men to be upright, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. ²⁹ "Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you build tombs for the prophets, and decorate the monuments of the upright, ³⁰ and say, 'If we had been living in the times of our fathers, we would not have joined them in the murder of the prophets.' ³¹ So you bear witness against yourselves that you are descended from the murderers of the prophets. ³² Go on and fill up the measure of your forefathers' guilt. ³³ You serpents! You brood of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to the pit? ³⁴ This is why I am going to send you prophets, wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and hunt from one town to another; ³⁵ it is that on your heads may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of Abel the upright to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar! ³⁶ I tell you, all this will come upon this age! ³⁷ "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused! ³⁸ Now I leave you to yourselves. ³⁹ For I tell you, you will never see me again until you say, 'Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name!' "

¹ What causes wars and fights among you? Is it not your cravings, which are at war within your bodies? ² You crave things, and cannot have them, and so you commit murder. You covet things, and cannot get them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have things because you do not ask for them. ³ You ask and fail to get them because you ask with wrong motives, to spend them on your pleasures. ⁴ You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy. ⁵ Do you suppose the Scripture means nothing when it says, "He yearns jealously over the Spirit he has put in our hearts?" ⁶ But he gives all the greater blessing. As the Scripture says, "God opposes haughty persons, but he blesses humble-minded ones."

³ Do not act for selfish ends or from vanity, but modestly treat one another as your superiors. ⁴ Do not take account of your own interests, but of the interests of others as well.

⁸ "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God!

⁸ Assistants, in turn, must be serious, straightforward men, not addicted to wine or dishonest gain,

⁸ Be calm and watchful. Your opponent the devil is prowling about like a roaring lion, wanting to devour you. ⁹ Resist him and be strong in the faith, for you know that your brotherhood all over the world is having the same experience of suffering.