Building Relationships

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

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;

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

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.

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

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

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

The two <FI>are<Fi> better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour.

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

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,

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

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

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

`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.

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

A man with friends <FI>is<Fi> to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

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;'

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price. — read the full passage →

`Honour thy father and thy mother, so that thy days are prolonged on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee.

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

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

`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 →

Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

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

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

Better <FI>is<Fi> the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better <FI>is<Fi> the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit. — read the full passage →

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

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

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 →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.

For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but woe to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up!

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead, — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

be humbled, then, under the powerful hand of God, that you He may exalt in good time, — read the full passage →

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

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, — read the full passage →

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it <FI>is<Fi> .

And this same also--all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, — read the full passage →

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

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things. — read the full passage →

have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?

for in what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you.

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,

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

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

Thou <FI>art<Fi> all fair, my friend, And a blemish there is not in thee. Come from Lebanon, O spouse,

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

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.

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 →

House and wealth <FI>are<Fi> the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> an understanding wife.

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

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

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

and God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power.

And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

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

See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

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.

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

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

The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

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; — read the full passage →

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →

God! Perfect <FI>is<Fi> His way, The saying of Jehovah is tried, A shield He <FI>is<Fi> to all those trusting in Him.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain <FI>is<Fi> , but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

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

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

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

who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time, — read the full passage →

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

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

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

And he is pierced for our transgressions, Bruised for our iniquities, The chastisement of our peace <FI>is<Fi> on him, And by his bruise there is healing to us.

And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;

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

`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.

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,