The document contains multiple Bible passages about selflessness and putting others' needs before your own. It discusses how Jesus was selfless by dying on the cross for humanity's sins. It also contains lyrics from the song "Cat's in the Cradle" about a father who was too busy for his son when young but wants to spend time with him when older. The overall message is about sacrificing for others as Jesus did and making family a priority.

2. 7 “Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to
him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit
down to eat’? 8 “But will he not say to him, ‘Prepare something for me
to eat, and properly clothe yourself and serve me while I eat and drink;
and afterward you may eat and drink’? 9 “He does not thank the slave
because he did the things which were commanded, does he? 10 “So
you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say,
‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to
have done.’”
- Luke 17:7-10 NASB
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3. But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men
will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers,
disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy.
- 2 Timothy 3:1-2 NASB
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4. I decided long ago, never to walk in
anyone's shadows
If I fail, if I succeed
At least I'll live as I believe
No matter what they take from me
They can't take away my dignity
Because the greatest love of all
Is happening to me
I found the greatest love of all
Inside of me
The greatest love of all
Is easy to achieve
Learning to love yourself
It is the greatest love of all
- Whitney Houston, "Greatest Love Of All"

5. Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his
friends.
- John 15:13 NASB
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6. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His
Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
- 1 John 4:10 NASB
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7. 7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the
good man someone would dare even to die. 8 But God demonstrates
His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died
for us
- Romans 5:7-8 NASB
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8. 3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of
mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; 4 do not
merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the
interests of others. 5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in
Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not
regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself,
taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of
men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by
becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
- Philippians 2:3-8 NASB
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9. For you have been called for this purpose, since Christ also suffered
for you, leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps
- 1 Peter 2:21 NASB
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10. of 10 10
My child arrived just the other day
He came to the world in the usual way
But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
He learned to walk while I was away
And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew
He'd say "I'm gonna be like you, Dad
You know I'm gonna be like you"
When you comin' home, Dad
I don't know when, but we'll get together then
You know we'll have a good time then
My son turned ten just the other day
He said, "Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let's play
Can you teach me to throw", I said "Not today
I got a lot to do", he said, "That's ok"
And he walked away but his smile never dimmed
And said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah
You know I'm gonna be like him"
Well, he came from college just the other day
So much like a man I just had to say
"Son, I'm proud of you, can you sit for a while"
He shook his head and said with a smile
"What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys
See you later, can I have them please"
I've long since retired, my son's moved away
I called him up just the other day
I said, "I'd like to see you if you don't mind"
He said, "I'd love to, Dad, if I can find the time
You see my new job's a hassle and the kids have the flu
But it's sure nice talking to you, Dad
It's been sure nice talking to you"
And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me
- Sandy Chapin, Harry F. Chapin, "Cat's In The Cradle"

11. 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have
love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the
gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I
have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am
nothing. 3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I
surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me
nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not
brag and is not arrogant, 5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek
its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all
things. 8 Love never fails;
- 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 NASB
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12. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit
who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your
own? 20 For you have been bought with a price
- 1 Corinthians 6:19-20a NASB
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13. And be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.
- Ephesians 5:21 NASB
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14. And be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.
- Ephesians 5:21 NASB
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15. Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
- Ephesians 5:22 NASB
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16. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and
gave Himself up for her,
- Ephesians 5:25 NASB
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17. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and
the church.
- Ephesians 5:32 NASB
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