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Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering, — read the full passage →

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge; — read the full passage →

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them--Diotrephes--doth not receive us; — read the full passage →

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility, — read the full passage →

one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou--who art thou that dost judge the other? — read the full passage →

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

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;

Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

and if one another ye do bite and devour, see--that ye may not by one another be consumed.

Whoso is walking in his uprightness is fearing Jehovah, And the perverted <FI>in<Fi> his ways is despising Him.

Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;

be considering what things I say, for the Lord give to thee understanding in all things.

all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea.

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged,

Righteous <FI>is<Fi> the first in his own cause, His neighbour cometh and hath searched him.

The simple giveth credence to everything, And the prudent attendeth to his step.

The commencement of wisdom <FI>is<Fi> the fear of Jehovah, And a knowledge of the Holy Ones <FI>is<Fi> understanding.

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

And Jesus having been born in Beth-Lehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, lo, mages from the east came to Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

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 the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you the Life, the age-during, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us--

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

for the judgment without kindness <FI>is<Fi> to him not having done kindness, and exult doth kindness over judgment.

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance <FI>is<Fi> Mine,

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.

And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren--`If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;' — read the full passage →

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come--a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;

or, how wilt thou say to thy brother, Suffer I may cast out the mote from thine eye, and lo, the beam <FI>is<Fi> in thine own eye?

for in what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you.

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

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

`And why dost thou behold the mote that <FI>is<Fi> in thy brother's eye, and the beam that <FI>is<Fi> in thine own eye dost not consider?

for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment,

and if also any one may strive, he is not crowned, except he may strive lawfully;

no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death;

let it not be! we who died to the sin--how shall we still live in it?

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

`And into whatever city ye do enter, and they may not receive you, having gone forth to its broad places, say, — read the full passage →

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

Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened. — read the full passage →

To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

`Who <FI>is<Fi> simple? let him turn aside hither.' Whoso lacketh heart: she hath said to him,

In pastures of tender grass He causeth me to lie down, By quiet waters He doth lead me.

`And a man who committeth adultery with a man's wife--who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour--the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death. — read the full passage →