Church Conflict

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

I wonder that ye are so quickly removed from Him who did call you in the grace of Christ to another good news; — read the full passage →

Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

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.

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

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 →

which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things comparing,

and after certain days, Paul said unto Barnabas, `Having turned back again, we may look after our brethren, in every city in which we have preached the word of the Lord--how they are.' — 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 →

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 Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

for it behoveth sects also to be among you, that those approved may become manifest among you;

salute one another in a holy kiss; the assemblies of Christ do salute you.

for with the heart doth <FI>one<Fi> believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;

and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

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,

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan, — read the full passage →

`And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

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.

for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;

And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, `If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved;

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.

He saith to them, `And ye--who do ye say me to be?' — read the full passage →

And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, did question him, to shew to them a sign from the heaven, — read the full passage →

But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host; — read the full passage →