Confronting

“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 →

A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

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.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, — read the full passage →

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.

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

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 →

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

“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.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

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

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

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

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

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

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

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle towards all, able to teach, patient, — read the full passage →

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

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

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. — 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.

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

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 →

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 →

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

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

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;

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. — read the full passage →

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

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

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. — read the full passage →

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

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.

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

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

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

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

When I tell the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

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

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

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 →

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — 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 →

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you; — read the full passage →

But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth; — read the full passage →

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another. — read the full passage →

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling;

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

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

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 →

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever,— — read the full passage →

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 →

Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

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.

“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 →

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

Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars. — read the full passage →

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, — read the full passage →

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

who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, — read the full passage →

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips”; — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.’ — read the full passage →

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!” says Yahweh of Armies.

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!

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

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

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

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

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

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.

Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.

But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

Everyone went to his own house, — read the full passage →

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

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”

neither will they say, ‘Look, here!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ for behold, the Kingdom of God is within you.”

As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!” — read the full passage →

They asked him, saying, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” — read the full passage →

Now after John was taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom of God,

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 →