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You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

But know this, that in the last days, grievous times will come. — read the full passage →

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself. — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’ and ‘Whoever shall murder shall be in danger of the judgment.’ — read the full passage →

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear. — read the full passage →

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, — read the full passage →

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you? — read the full passage →

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband — read the full passage →

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed, — read the full passage →

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man. — read the full passage →

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.