Criticism

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.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger; — read the full passage →

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

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.

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

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

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love. — read the full passage →

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

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

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

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

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

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things. — read the full passage →

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

Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

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

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

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

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.”

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.

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

Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;

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

For no prophecy ever came by the will of man: but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

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

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.

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free. — read the full passage →

Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few. — read the full passage →

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

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? — read the full passage →

But when they continued asking him, he looked up and said to them, “He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.”

Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you. — read the full passage →

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot. — read the full passage →

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

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 →

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. — read the full passage →

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

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it. — read the full passage →

He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!” — read the full passage →

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

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

For, “His letters”, they say, “are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised.”

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

“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.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

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 →

Let all that you do be done in love.

Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger: — read the full passage →

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

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

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

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 judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

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

Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise. — 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.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

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

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands. — read the full passage →

He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

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

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.

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

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

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

The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise. — read the full passage →

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Now very early in the morning, he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him. He sat down, and taught them.

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 →

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.

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

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →

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

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

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

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.