Confrontation

“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 →

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

“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 →

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? — read the full passage →

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

“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. — read the full passage →

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed. — read the full passage →

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, — 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.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — read the full passage →

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. — read the full passage →

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.

On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the elders. — read the full passage →

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

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; — read the full passage →

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse. — read the full passage →

“If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor, — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.

“‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

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

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables and the seats of those who sold the doves. — read the full passage →

Then Peter came and said to him, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?” — 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 →

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

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

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; behold, he comes out to the water; and tell him, ‘This is what Yahweh says, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

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

You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

They came again to Jerusalem, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders came to him,

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. — read the full passage →

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

always learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

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

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

But if he doesn’t listen, take one or two more with you, that at the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

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,

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

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus,

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

Again Yahweh’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.” — read the full passage →

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

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

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 →

Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days. — read the full passage →

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, — read the full passage →

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.