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How Can You Benefit From GODLY PRINCIPLES?
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Some Helpful Bible Principles

Within the family:

"Let each one keep seeking, not his own advantage, but that of the other person."—1 Corinthians 10:24.

"Love . . . does not look for its own interests."—1 Corinthians 13:4, 5.

"Let each one of you individually so love his wife as he does himself."—Ephesians 5:33.

"You wives, be in subjection to your husbands."—Colossians 3:18.

"Listen to your father who caused your birth, and do not despise your mother just because she has grown old."—Proverbs 23:22.

At school, at work, or in business:

"A cheating pair of scales is something detestable . . . The wicked one is making false wages."—Proverbs 11:1, 18.

"Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him do hard work."—Ephesians 4:28.

"If anyone does not want to work, neither let him eat."—2 Thessalonians 3:10.

"Whatever you are doing, work at it whole-souled as to Jehovah."—Colossians 3:23.

"We wish to conduct ourselves honestly in all things."—Hebrews 13:18.

Attitude toward wealth:

"He that is hastening to gain riches will not remain innocent."—Proverbs 28:20.

"A mere lover of silver will not be satisfied with silver."—Ecclesiastes 5:10.

Assessing one's own worth:

"For people to search out their own glory, is it glory?"—Proverbs 25:27.

"May a stranger, and not your own mouth, praise you."—Proverbs 27:2.

"I tell everyone there among you not to think more of himself than it is necessary to think."—Romans 12:3.

"If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he is deceiving his own mind."—Galatians 6:3.

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Appeared in The Watchtower  February 15, 2002

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