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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.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

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

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

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 →

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

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 →

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say. — read the full passage →

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

in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility, — read the full passage →

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another? — read the full passage →

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

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.

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

He who walks in his uprightness fears Yahweh, but he who is perverse in his ways despises him.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

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 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.

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

He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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.

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, — 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,

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

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

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

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye;’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

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

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — 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.

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel: — read the full passage →

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?

For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;

Also, if anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

No soldier on duty entangles himself in the affairs of life, that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.

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

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

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

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;

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

But into whatever city you enter, and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say, — read the full passage →

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. — read the full passage →

Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.

“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. — read the full passage →