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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.

Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

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.

Yahweh examines the righteous, but the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.

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 →

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

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 →

Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

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.

A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.

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.

He will redeem their soul from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.

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

“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 →

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

“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.”

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

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

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously. — read the full passage →

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.

“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:

Yahweh is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

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.

I know that Yahweh will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and justice for the needy.

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 →

Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.

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

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

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

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and 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 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,

You will save the afflicted people, But your eyes are on the haughty, that you may bring them down.

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 →

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

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,

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

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 →

Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

He who corrects a mocker invites insult. He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.

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.

Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear, — read the full passage →

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 →

This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. — read the full passage →

Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not; for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell on it.

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.