Respect the lowly
Whoever mocks poor people insults their Creator;
gloating over misfortune is a punishable crime. ~ Proverbs 17:5 (MSG)
Watch that you don’t treat a single one of these childlike believers arrogantly. You realize, don’t you, that their personal angels are constantly in touch with my Father in heaven? ~ Matthew 18:10 (MSG)
KEY IDEA:
The lowly are important to God and should be important to us.
PRAYER:
Lord, help me to remember that in the overall scheme of things I'm a pretty lowly person.
But you care about me. I need to care for those who are lowly, too. Save me from my arrogance. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
