Confronting Others

“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.

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.

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.

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

“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 →

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 →

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.

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.

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.

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

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;

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

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

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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!

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 →

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

“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 →

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

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,

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

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 →

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

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

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

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

“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 →

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within?

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

You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.

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

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.

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

He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

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

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

He who gives answer before he hears, that is folly and shame to him.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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 →

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 →

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

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — 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. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

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?

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

“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.

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

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

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 →

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.

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

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

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 →

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

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him. — read the full passage →

but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

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

Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

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 →

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

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. — read the full passage →

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.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

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

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.