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And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

the husbands! love your wives, and be not bitter with them;

the fathers! vex not your children, lest they be discouraged.

Cast out a scorner--and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.

And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself--let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such <FI>cases<Fi> , and in peace hath God called us;

Jehovah the righteous doth try. And the wicked and the lover of violence, Hath His soul hated,

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

Who is giving healing to the broken of heart, And is binding up their griefs.

A fountain of life <FI>is<Fi> the mouth of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

And Jehovah is a tower for the bruised, A tower for times of adversity.

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

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

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

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain <FI>is<Fi> the religion;

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother; — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Jehovah is doing righteousness and judgments For all the oppressed.

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

A man of great wrath is bearing punishment, For, if thou dost deliver, yet again thou dost add.

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

He saith to them--`Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so.

From fraud and from violence he redeemeth their soul, And precious is their blood in his eyes.

And I have laid a charge on every one Who is leaping over the threshold in that day, Who are filling the house of their masters <FI>With<Fi> violence and deceit.

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife--himself he doth love; — read the full passage →

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

For <FI>I<Fi> hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He <FI>who<Fi> hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment; — read the full passage →

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance <FI>is<Fi> Mine,

Blessings <FI>are<Fi> for the head of the righteous, And the mouth of the wicked cover doth violence.

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

For <FI>I<Fi> hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He <FI>who<Fi> hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously. — read the full passage →

In like manner, the wives, be ye subject to your own husbands, that even if certain are disobedient to the word, through the conversation of the wives, without the word, they may be won, — read the full passage →

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

`Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,

Near <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah to the broken of heart, And the bruised of spirit He saveth.

be mindful of those in bonds, as having been bound with them, of those maltreated, as also yourselves being in the body;

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

I have known that Jehovah doth execute The judgment of the afflicted, The judgment of the needy.

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers-- — read the full passage →

Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers; — read the full passage →

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

And the poor people Thou dost save, And Thine eyes on the high causest to fall.

Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back, — read the full passage →

of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome--gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

If possible--so far as in you--with all men being in peace;

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

and whoever may cause to stumble one of the little ones believing in me, better is it for him if a millstone is hanged about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea.

have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you? — read the full passage →

And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart <FI>is<Fi> nets and snares, her hands <FI>are<Fi> bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

and as an enemy count <FI>him<Fi> not, but admonish ye <FI>him<Fi> as a brother;

And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

and to the married I announce--not I, but the Lord--let not a wife separate from a husband: — read the full passage →

`The Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance, — read the full passage →

Thus said Jehovah: Do ye judgment and righteousness, And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, And sojourner, orphan, and widow, ye do not oppress nor wrong, And innocent blood ye do not shed in this place.

The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it--shame, And a reprover of the wicked--his blemish.

and Jesus having seen, was much displeased, and he said to them, `Suffer the children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the reign of God;

The wives! be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord; — read the full passage →

but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man; — read the full passage →

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

but now put off, even ye, the whole--anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking--out of your mouth.

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord--the assembly,

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend, — read the full passage →

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand. — read the full passage →

and Saul saith to the bearer of his weapons, `Draw thy sword, and pierce me with it, lest they come--these uncircumcised--and have pierced me, and rolled themselves on me;' and the bearer of his weapons hath not been willing, for he is greatly afraid, and Saul taketh the sword, and falleth upon it.

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.