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Romans 12:16
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Romans 12:16
16Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
16 Be of the same mind one towards another. Minde not high things, but ‖condescend to men of low estate. Bee not wise in your owne conceits.
- Or, be contented with meane things.
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DEFINED WORDS
Romans 12:16
A shared disposition, purpose, or agreement.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
In the direction of; in relation to; approaching; or inclined and ready, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
One more; an additional or different person or thing.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
Raised or far above; great in height, rank, degree, or importance; as an adverb, greatly or aloft.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
condescend
To lower oneself willingly to associate with those of low estate.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616
Not high; beneath in place, rank, amount, strength, or condition; also humble or brought down.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
State, condition.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Having knowledge, discernment, sound judgment, prudence, or skill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Belonging to oneself; peculiar or proper to the person or thing named.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Conception, idea, or notion.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study8Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
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Open the full verse study7¶ Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
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Open the full verse study13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
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Open the full verse study2Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
3Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
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Open the full verse study5Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
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Open the full verse study3For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
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Open the full verse study18Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
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Open the full verse study21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
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Open the full verse study5Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:
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Open the full verse study2And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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Open the full verse study1AT the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
2And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
3And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
4Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
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Open the full verse study13But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
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Open the full verse study11Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
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Open the full verse study24¶ And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.
25And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.
26But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
27For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
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Open the full verse study11Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
12I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
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Open the full verse study5I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
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Open the full verse study6But godliness with contentment is great gain.
7For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
8And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
9But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
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Open the full verse study20¶ And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.
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Open the full verse study25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
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Open the full verse study1LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
2Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
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Open the full verse study10We are fools for Christ’s sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
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Open the full verse study13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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Open the full verse study12Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
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Open the full verse study25For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
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Open the full verse study3Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.
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Open the full verse study5And seekest thou great things for thyself? seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
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Open the full verse study5Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.
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Open the full verse study6And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
8And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
9And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:
10For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee:
11And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
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Open the full verse study5The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
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Open the full verse study21And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.
22But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
23And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
24And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.
25But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.
26But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
27And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
28Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
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Open the full verse study16Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
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Open the full verse study17He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
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Open the full verse study7All the brethren of the poor do hate him: how much more do his friends go far from him? he pursueth them with words, yet they are wanting to him.
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Open the full verse study32And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
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Open the full verse study5Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
6But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
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Open the full verse study11For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
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Open the full verse study2I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
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Open the full verse study5Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his Maker: and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished.
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Open the full verse study22The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.
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Open the full verse study9I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.
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Open the full verse study12Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study39And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
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Open the full verse study27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
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Open the full verse study2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
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Open the full verse study10Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
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Open the full verse study7And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
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