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Is agreeable to God
Judges 6:15-16. He answered, and said: I beseech thee, my lord
wherewith shall I deliver Israel? Behold, my family is the meanest
in Manasses, and I am the least in my father's house. And the Lord
said to him: I will be with thee: and thou shalt cut off Madian as one
man.
Can obtain God's mercy and grace
2 Paralipomenon 12:5-8. And Semeias the prophet came to Roboam,
and to the princes of Juda, that were gathered together in
Jerusalem, fleeing from Sesac, and he said to them: Thus saith the
Lord: You have left me, and I have left you in the hand of Sesac. And
the princes of Israel, and the king, being in a consternation, said:
The Lord is just. And when the Lord saw that they were humbled, the
word of the Lord came to Semeias, saying: Because they are
humbled, I will not destroy them, and I will give them a little help,
and my wrath shall not fall upon Jerusalem by the hand of Sesac.
But yet they shall serve him, that they may know the difference
between my service, and the service of a kingdom of the earth.
1 Kings 1:16-20. Count not thy handmaid for one of the daughters of
Belial: for out of the abundance of my sorrow and grief have I
spoken till now. Then Heli said to her: Go in peace: and the God of
Israel grant thee thy petition, which thou hast asked of him. And she
said: Would to God thy handmaid may find grace in thy eyes. So the
woman went on her way, and ate, and her countenance was no
more changed. And they rose in the morning, and worshipped
before the Lord: and they returned, and came into their house at
Ramatha. And Elcana knew Anna his wife: And the Lord
remembered her. And it came to pass when the time was come
about, Anna conceived and bore a son, and called his name
Samuel: because she had asked him of the Lord.
1 Peter 5:5. In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the
ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God
resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.
Be humble before God and with each other
Romans 11:20-21. Well: because of unbelief they were broken off.
But thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear. For if God
hath not spared the natural branches, fear lest perhaps also he spare
not thee.
Mark 9:34. And sitting down, he called the twelve and saith to them:
If any man desire to be first, he shall be the last of all and be
minister of all.
John 13:4-5. He riseth from supper and layeth aside his garments
and, having taken a towel, girded himself. After that, he putteth
water into a basin and began to wash the feet of the disciples and to
wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
Philippians 2:3. Let nothing be done through contention: neither by
vain glory. But in humility, let each esteem others better than
themselves: