19 serving the Lord with all humility, with tears, and with the trials that came to me through the plots of the Jews(A)

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19 I served the Lord with great humility and with tears(A) and in the midst of severe testing by the plots of my Jewish opponents.(B)

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with all humility(A) and gentleness, with patience,(B) accepting[a](C) one another in love,(D)

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  1. Ephesians 4:2 Or tolerating

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another(A) in love.(B)

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Do nothing out of rivalry(A) or conceit,(B) but in humility(C) consider others as more important(D) than yourselves.

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Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.(A) Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,(B)

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18 Let no one disqualify you,[a](A) insisting on ascetic practices(B) and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm and inflated(C) without cause by his unspiritual[b] mind.

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  1. Colossians 2:18 Or no one cheat us out of your prize
  2. Colossians 2:18 Lit fleshly

18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility(A) and the worship of angels disqualify you.(B) Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind.

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23 Although these have a reputation of wisdom(A) by promoting ascetic practices, humility, and severe treatment of the body, they are not of any value in curbing self-indulgence.[a](B)

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  1. Colossians 2:23 Lit value against indulgence of the flesh

23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility(A) and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.

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In the same way, you younger men, be subject to the elders. And all of you clothe yourselves with[a] humility toward one another, because

God resists the proud
but gives grace to the humble.(A)[b]

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  1. 1 Peter 5:5 Lit you tie around yourselves
  2. 1 Peter 5:5 Pr 3:34 LXX

In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves(A) to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility(B) toward one another, because,

“God opposes the proud
    but shows favor to the humble.”[a](C)

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  1. 1 Peter 5:5 Prov. 3:34