Holding Grudges

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice, — read the full passage →

`For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you--your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →

`And whenever ye may stand praying, forgive, if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your trespasses;

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

`Thou dost not take vengeance, nor watch the sons of thy people; and thou hast had love to thy neighbour as thyself; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

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

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him, — read the full passage →

The wisdom of a man hath deferred his anger, And his glory <FI>is<Fi> to pass over transgression.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

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

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

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

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

Then Peter having come near to him, said, `Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him--till seven times?' — read the full passage →

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;

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath, — read the full passage →

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

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

And thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand at the tribunal of the Christ; — read the full passage →

`Happy the kind--because they shall find kindness.

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry-- — read the full passage →

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 →

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted; — read the full passage →

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

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

but now put off, even ye, the whole--anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking--out of your mouth.

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,

Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!

Do not say, `I recompense evil,' Wait for Jehovah, and He delivereth thee.

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

Then Peter having come near to him, said, `Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him--till seven times?' — read the full passage →

And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?' — read the full passage →

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

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.

And Jesus said, `Father, forgive them, for they have not known what they do;' and parting his garments they cast a lot.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

`And forgive us our debts, as also we forgive our debtors.

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — read the full passage →

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain <FI>is<Fi> the religion;

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;

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 →

Woe <FI>to<Fi> the wise in their own eyes, And--before their own faces--intelligent!

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man--every one who is judging--for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging, — read the full passage →

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

`Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy; — read the full passage →

Say not, `As he did to me, so I do to him, I render to each according to his work.'

and--if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them; — read the full passage →

`Happy the meek--because they shall inherit the land. — read the full passage →

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? — read the full passage →

And we ought--we who are strong--to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves; — read the full passage →

for out of much tribulation and pressure of heart I wrote to you through many tears, not that ye might be made sorry, but that ye might know the love that I have more abundantly toward you.

The fool--in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame.

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

so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged, — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, he reclining (at meat) in the house, that lo, many tax-gatherers and sinners having come, were lying (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples, — read the full passage →

`If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee, — read the full passage →

And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already <FI>is<Fi> to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer <FI>is<Fi> our salvation than when we did believe; — read the full passage →

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing, — read the full passage →

And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking him that he might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee he reclined (at meat), — read the full passage →

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap, — read the full passage →

An angry man stirreth up contention, And a furious man is multiplying transgression.

we--we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Desist from anger, and forsake fury, Fret not thyself only to do evil. — read the full passage →

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled, — read the full passage →

Then Peter having come near to him, said, `Sir, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him--till seven times?'

`And judge not, and ye may not be judged; condemn not, and ye may not be condemned; release, and ye shall be released.

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,

and forgive us our sins, for also we ourselves forgive every one indebted to us; and mayest Thou not bring us into temptation; but do Thou deliver us from the evil.'

and Jesus having called them near, said, `Ye have known that the rulers of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those great do exercise authority over them, — read the full passage →

so also my heavenly Father will do to you, if ye may not forgive each one his brother from your hearts their trespasses.'

and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

and the Pharisees, having heard that he did silence the Sadducees, were gathered together unto him; — read the full passage →

A fool bringeth out all his mind, And the wise till afterwards restraineth it.

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, — read the full passage →

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

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 →

`Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.

If he who is hating thee doth hunger, cause him to eat bread, And if he thirst, cause him to drink water. — read the full passage →

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

if any one may say--`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God--whom he hath not seen--how is he able to love? — read the full passage →

Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint, — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

`For, if ye may forgive men their trespasses He also will forgive you--your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens;

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,

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

and if seven times in the day he may sin against thee, and seven times in the day may turn back to thee, saying, I reform; thou shalt forgive him.'