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

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

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

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

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

The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of 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 a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. — read the full passage →

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

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

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

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

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. — read the full passage →

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

The Lord executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? — read the full passage →

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

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

He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.

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

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. — read the full passage →

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 mankind, — read the full passage →

For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

Ye have heard that it was said by 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 care upon him; for he careth for you.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

For the Lord, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.

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

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: — read the full passage →

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

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

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:

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

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

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

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. — read the full passage →

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

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

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:

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

Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; — read the full passage →

To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

Know ye not that ye are the 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 her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

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

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

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,

Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the 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 which hang down, and the feeble knees;

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

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 he received of us.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: — read the full passage →

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, — read the full passage →

Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from 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 torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

Take heed 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 which is in heaven.

Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: — read the full passage →

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

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

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

And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

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

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

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.