Going To Your Brother

“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 →

“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.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

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

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.

“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 →

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

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

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

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

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively. — read the full passage →

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

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.

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

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. — 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.

“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”

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 →

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

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 →

“Cry aloud, don’t spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.

‘Honor your father and mother.’And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you, — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

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

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead. — read the full passage →

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

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 →

When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

“‘You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

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

However, if you fulfill the royal law, according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season. — read the full passage →

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

One of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, testing him.

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it; — read the full passage →

Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

But nobody can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.

Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband. — read the full passage →

Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →

He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Free him, and let him go.”

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to him, “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.”

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. — read the full passage →

“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. — read the full passage →

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? — read the full passage →

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison. — read the full passage →

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last, — read the full passage →

I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord, — read the full passage →

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: Judas called Barsabbas, and Silas, chief men among the brothers. — read the full passage →

After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me. — read the full passage →

If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”

Jesus answered, “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. — read the full passage →

If you love me, keep my commandments. — read the full passage →

When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; — read the full passage →

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. — read the full passage →

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day. — read the full passage →

Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?” — read the full passage →

On one of those days, he was teaching; and there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every village of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. The power of the Lord was with him to heal them.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying, — read the full passage →

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand. — read the full passage →

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

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

But if he doesn’t wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.’”

Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tender hearted, courteous,