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And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Fathers, provoke not your children, that they be not discouraged.

Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.

Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.

Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

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

He healeth the broken in heart, And bindeth up their wounds.

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life; But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

A soft answer turneth away wrath; But a grievous word stirreth up anger.

Jehovah also will be a high tower for the oppressed, A high tower in times of trouble;

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

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

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: — read the full passage →

If any man thinketh himself to be religious, while he bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his heart, this man’s religion is vain.

out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Jehovah executeth righteous acts, And judgments for all that are oppressed.

Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of 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 edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

A man of great wrath shall bear the penalty; For if thou deliver him, thou must do it yet again.

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

He saith unto them, Moses for your hardness of heart suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it hath not been so.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence; And precious will their blood be in his sight:

And in that day I will punish all those that leap over the threshold, that fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

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

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: — read the full passage →

casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.

Avenge not yourselves, beloved, but give place unto the wrath of God: for it is written, Vengeance belongeth unto me; I will recompense, saith the Lord.

Blessings are upon the head of the righteous; But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. — read the full passage →

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Make no friendship with a man that is given to anger; And with a wrathful man thou shalt not go:

Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted, And justice for the needy.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; — read the full passage →

Chasten thy son, seeing there is hope; And set not thy heart on his destruction.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Who executeth justice for the oppressed; Who giveth food to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;

A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

An angry man stirreth up strife, And a wrathful man aboundeth in transgression.

Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.

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

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

Finally, be ye all likeminded, compassionate, loving as brethren, tenderhearted, humbleminded:

And the afflicted people thou wilt save; But thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.

My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him; — read the full passage →

to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men.

If it be possible, as much as in you lieth, be at peace with all men.

Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

For no word from God shall be void of power.

And whosoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it were better for him if a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? — read the full passage →

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought for things honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

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

Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; Butthe rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;

and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;

And yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised, — read the full passage →

Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

He that correcteth a scoffer getteth to himself reviling; And he that reproveth a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me; forbid them not: for to such belongeth the kingdom of God.

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 forth out of the heart; and they defile the man. — read the full passage →

There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.

but now do ye also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, railing, shameful speaking out of your mouth:

for no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ also the church;

See that ye despise not one of these little ones: for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek: Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear; — read the full passage →

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

Then said Saul to his armorbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armorbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.