Building Relationships

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

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.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

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,

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

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

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

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

“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 →

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. — read the full passage →

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

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works, — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, — read the full passage →

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love; — read the full passage →

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; — read the full passage →

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. — read the full passage →

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, — read the full passage →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

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

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

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.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — 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 →

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tested. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

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.”

who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. — read the full passage →

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

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,