Lexicon :: Strong's G2075 - este

“You are blessed when they insult you and persecute you and falsely say every kind of evil against you because of me.

“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty?[fn] It’s no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.

He said to them, “Why are you afraid, you of little faith? ” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

“because it isn’t you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father is speaking through you.

“Do you still lack understanding? ” he[fn] asked.

“But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ because you have one Teacher,[fn] and you are all brothers and sisters.

“In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

“So you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Then he said to them, “Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith? ”

He said to them, “Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a person from the outside can defile him?

“And whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you belong to Christ ​— ​truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.

“So when they arrest you and hand you over, don’t worry beforehand what you will say, but say whatever is given to you at that time, for it isn’t you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.

Blessed are you when people hate you,

when they exclude you, insult you,

and slander your name as evil

because of the Son of Man.

But he turned and rebuked them,[fn]

“Woe to you![fn] You are like unmarked graves; the people who walk over them don’t know it.”

“once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up for us! ’ He will answer you, ‘I don’t know you or where you’re from.’

“But he will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you or where you’re from. Get away from me, all you evildoers! ’

And he told them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly admired by people is revolting in God’s sight.

“You are those who stood by me in my trials.

Then he asked them, “What is this dispute that you’re having[fn] with each other as you are walking? ” And they stopped walking and looked discouraged.

“Why are you troubled? ” he asked them. “And why do doubts arise in your hearts?

“You are witnesses of these things.

“You are from below,” he told them, “I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my word,[fn] you really are my disciples.

“I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place among you.

“You are of your father the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature,[fn] because he is a liar and the father of lies.

“The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

“But you don’t believe because you are not of my sheep.[fn]

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law,[fn] I said, you are gods?

“One who has bathed,” Jesus told him, “doesn’t need to wash anything except his feet, but he is completely clean. You are clean, but not all of you.”

“If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

“You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.

“You are my friends if you do what I command you.

“If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

“You also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

“You are the sons[fn] of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, And all the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.

“The next day he showed up while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, ‘Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other? ’

The evil spirit answered them, “I know Jesus, and I recognize Paul ​— ​but who are you? ”

He continued, “I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strictness of our ancestral law. I was zealous for God, just as all of you are today.

including you who are also called by Jesus Christ.

For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.

Don’t you know that if you offer yourselves to someone[fn] as obedient slaves, you are slaves of that one you obey ​— ​either of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness?

You, however, are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to him.

My brothers and sisters, I myself am convinced about you that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us ​— ​our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption ​— ​

because you are still worldly. For since there is envy and strife[fn] among you, are you not worldly and behaving like mere humans?