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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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

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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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

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

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

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