1 Timothy 4:12 Take Heed to Your Ministry

Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Exodus 14:12 Didn't we tell you before we left that this would happen? We told you to leave us alone and let us go on being slaves of the Egyptians. It would be better to be slaves there than to die here in the desert.”

Exodus 14:12 Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.”

1 Samuel 15:17 So Samuel said, “When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the Lord anoint you king over Israel?

John 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease. [He must grow more prominent; I must grow less so.] [Isa. 9:7.]

TLB 1Ths 4:11:

"This should be your ambition: to live a quiet life, minding your own business and doing your own work, just as we told you before."

1 Thessalonians 5:11 So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.

Deuteronomy 2:9 Then the LORD said to me, "Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession."

2 Peter 3:4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation.”

Exodus 23:8 You shall take no bribe, for the bribe blinds those who have sight and perverts the testimony and the cause of the righteous.