Aggression

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

`Happy the peacemakers--because they shall be called Sons of God.

Then saith Jesus to him, `Turn back thy sword to its place; for all who did take the sword, by the sword shall perish;

for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil.

rise, for on thee <FI>is<Fi> the matter, and we <FI>are<Fi> with thee; be strong, and do.'

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

And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and did cast forth all those selling and buying in the temple, and the tables of the money-changers he overturned, and the seats of those selling the doves, — read the full passage →

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

Every one who is hating his brother--a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

Trust unto Jehovah with all thy heart, And unto thine own understanding lean not. — read the full passage →

for as many as to Christ were baptized did put on Christ;

Then said he to them, `But, now, he who is having a bag, let him take <FI>it<Fi> up, and in like manner also a scrip; and he who is not having, let him sell his garment, and buy a sword,

but I--I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

A fool bringeth out all his mind, And the wise till afterwards restraineth it.

teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

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

put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice, — read the full passage →

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

And He hath judged between the nations, And hath given a decision to many peoples, And they have beat their swords to ploughshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation doth not lift up sword unto nation, Nor do they learn any more--war.

Hath a people heard the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, thou--and doth live?

having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

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

And they said, `Sir, lo, here <FI>are<Fi> two swords;' and he said to them, `It is sufficient.'

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

A man of fury stirreth up contention, And the slow to anger appeaseth strife.

A Secret Treasure of David. Preserve me, O God, for I did trust in Thee. — read the full passage →

(not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon;

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

`Happy the poor in spirit--because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

Thou hast not bought for Me with money sweet cane, And <FI>with<Fi> the fat of thy sacrifices hast not filled Me, Only--thou hast caused Me to serve with thy sins, Thou hast wearied Me with thine iniquities.

He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint!

Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.

he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;

for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps, — read the full passage →

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,

the love to the neighbour doth work no ill; the love, therefore, <FI>is<Fi> the fulness of law. — read the full passage →

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

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

`But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

but I--I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire.

`Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men. — read the full passage →

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

A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it <FI>are<Fi> the outgoings of life.

Desist from anger, and forsake fury, Fret not thyself only to do evil.

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

for as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also the faith apart from the works is dead.

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus,

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

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,

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; — read the full passage →

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

`In this was my Father glorified, that ye may bear much fruit, and ye shall become my disciples.

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

`The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have <FI>it<Fi> abundantly.

And Jesus said, `Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;' and parting his garments they cast a lot.

I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

`No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

and Jesus said to them, `Ye have not known what ye ask; are ye able to drink of the cup that I drink of, and with the baptism that I am baptized with--to be baptized?'

And they came to the other side of the sea, to the region of the Gadarenes, — read the full passage →

for Jehovah--His eyes go to and fro in all the earth, to show Himself strong <FI>for<Fi> a people whose heart <FI>is<Fi> perfect towards Him; thou hast been foolish concerning this, because--henceforth there are with thee wars.'

lo, I am building a house to the name of Jehovah my God, to sanctify <FI>it<Fi> to Him, to make perfume before Him, perfume of spices, and a continual arrangement, and burnt-offerings at morning and at evening, at sabbaths, and at new moons, and at appointed seasons of Jehovah our God; to the age this <FI>is<Fi> on Israel.

`Have not I commanded thee? be strong and courageous; be not terrified nor affrighted, for with thee <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah thy God in every <FI>place<Fi> whither thou goest.'

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;

and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek, — read the full passage →

And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was there a man having the hand withered, — read the full passage →

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

Euodia I exhort, and Syntyche I exhort, to be of the same mind in the Lord;

And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ--this one is not His;

for revealed is the wrath of God from heaven upon all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding down the truth in unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered and said to him, `Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

And he went forth thence, and came to his own country, and his disciples do follow him, — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them, — read the full passage →

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens. — read the full passage →