Gossiping

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;

A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul. — read the full passage →

and at the same time also, they learn <FI>to be<Fi> idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth,

Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

The words of a tale-bearer <FI>are<Fi> as self-inflicted wounds, And they have gone down <FI>to<Fi> the inner parts of the heart.

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I--I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

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;

To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the sight of his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of his ears decideth.

for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing, — read the full passage →

`Thou dost not answer against thy neighbour a false testimony.

of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome--gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

And I have drawn near to you for judgment, And I have been a witness, Making haste against sorcerers, And against adulterers, And against swearers to a falsehood, And against oppressors of the hire of an hireling, Of a widow, and of a fatherless one, And those turning aside a sojourner, And who fear Me not, said Jehovah of Hosts.

religion pure and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to look after orphans and widows in their tribulation--unspotted to keep himself from the world.

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works,

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

Even in thy mind a king revile not, And in the inner parts of thy bed-chamber Revile not the rich: For a fowl of the heavens causeth the voice to go, And a possessor of wings declareth the word.

for not that for others release, and ye pressured, <FI>do I speak,<Fi> — read the full passage →

The end of the whole matter let us hear: --`Fear God, and keep His commands, for this <FI>is<Fi> the whole of man.

Fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!

`When Jehovah thy God doth cut off the nations, whose land Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, and thou hast succeeded them, and dwelt in their cities, and in their houses, — read the full passage →

feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind, — read the full passage →

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ! — read the full passage →

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness? — 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;

reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

And I--this <FI>is<Fi> My covenant with them, said Jehovah, My Spirit that <FI>is<Fi> on thee, And My words that I have put in thy mouth, Depart not from thy mouth, And from the mouth of thy seed, And from the mouth of thy seed's seed, said Jehovah, From henceforth unto the age!

And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.

A Song of the Ascents. O the happiness of every one fearing Jehovah, Who is walking in His ways.

`If ye fear Jehovah, and have served Him, and hearkened to His voice, then ye do not provoke the mouth of Jehovah, and ye have been--both ye and the king who hath reigned over you--after Jehovah your God.

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 →

for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first, — read the full passage →

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

And the God of the peace, who did bring up out of the dead the great shepherd of the sheep--in the blood of an age-during covenant--our Lord Jesus,

Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day the same, and to the ages;

A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said--`Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him,

knowing that He who did raise up the Lord Jesus, us also through Jesus shall raise up, and shall present with you,

wherefore receive ye one another, according as also the Christ did receive us, to the glory of God.

And may the God of the endurance, and of the exhortation, give to you to have the same mind toward one another, according to Christ Jesus; — read the full passage →

And ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God doth dwell in you; and if any one hath not the Spirit of Christ--this one is not His;

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God--

for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts;

`And when the Comforter may come, whom I will send to you from the Father--the Spirit of truth, who from the Father doth come forth, he will testify of me;

A voice of Jehovah to the city calleth, And wisdom doth fear Thy name, Hear ye the rod, and Him who appointed it.

Those fearing Thee see me and rejoice, Because for Thy word I have hoped.

Established is Thy throne since then, From the age Thou <FI>art<Fi> .

Afraid of Jehovah are all the earth, Of Him are all the inhabitants of the world afraid.

Of Thee my praise <FI>is<Fi> in the great assembly. My vows I complete before His fearers.

The fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> true, They have been righteous--together.

And I say, `Not good <FI>is<Fi> the thing that ye are doing; in the fear of our God do ye not walk, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

and now, lo, the king is walking habitually before you, and I have become aged and gray-headed, and my sons, lo, they <FI>are<Fi> with you, and I have walked habitually before you from my youth till this day.

and the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

And the fifth messenger did pour out his vial upon the throne of the beast, and his kingdom did become darkened, and they were gnawing their tongues from the pain,

and his tail doth draw the third of the stars of the heaven, and he did cast them to the earth; and the dragon did stand before the woman who is about to bring forth, that when she may bring forth, her child he may devour;

and he did open the pit of the abyss, and there came up a smoke out of the pit as smoke of a great furnace, and darkened was the sun and the air, from the smoke of the pit.

And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo, a great earthquake came, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood, — read the full passage →

`But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat;

to Demetrius testimony hath been given by all, and by the truth itself, and we also--we do testify, and ye have known that our testimony is true.

because three are who are testifying <FI>in the heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these--the three--are one;

Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:

whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God in him doth remain, and he in God; — read the full passage →

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

and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are. — read the full passage →

Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who did obtain a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ:

also to which an antitype doth now save us--baptism, (not a putting away of the filth of flesh, but the question of a good conscience in regard to God,) through the rising again of Jesus Christ,

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!

Let no one say, being tempted--`From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one,

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

of how much sorer punishment shall he be counted worthy who the Son of God did trample on, and the blood of the covenant did count a common thing, in which he was sanctified, and to the Spirit of the grace did despite?

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, and being made like to the Son of God, doth remain a priest continually.

Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear--

thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee--God, thy God--with oil of gladness above thy partners;'

and unto the Son: `Thy throne, O God, <FI>is<Fi> to the age of the age; a sceptre of righteousness <FI>is<Fi> the sceptre of thy reign; — read the full passage →

Markus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lukas, my fellow-workmen!

to Titus--true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that <FI>is<Fi> according to piety,

The Lord Jesus Christ <FI>is<Fi> with thy spirit; the grace <FI>is<Fi> with you! Amen.

the cloak that I left in Troas with Carpus, coming, bring thou and the books--especially the parchments.

And thou--watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance, — read the full passage →

and, even as Jannes and Jambres stood against Moses, so also these do stand against the truth, men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith; — read the full passage →

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according to a promise of life that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus,

I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;

in regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle--truth I say in Christ, I do not lie--a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created, — read the full passage →

giving thanks always for all things, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to the God and Father;

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;