Hurting Other Believers

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

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

For nothing is hidden, that will not be revealed; nor anything secret, that will not be known and come to light.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

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

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. — read the full passage →

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin. — read the full passage →

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come! — read the full passage →

He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew their tables. — read the full passage →

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer. — read the full passage →

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. — read the full passage →

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. — read the full passage →

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

Jesus answered, “The greatest is, ‘Hear, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one: — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

But whoever keeps his word, God’s love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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

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

for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shepherds them, and leads them to springs of waters of life. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

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

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

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.

However, what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ. — read the full passage →

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath, — read the full passage →

It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints, — read the full passage →

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

Jesus wept.

Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place, for all those who take the sword will die by the sword.

I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. — read the full passage →

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

For this cause, I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

But you, when you pray, enter into your inner room, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Don’t be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. — read the full passage →

Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.

and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back. — read the full passage →

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. — read the full passage →

Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.

Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; — read the full passage →

To you, my strength, I will sing praises. For God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; — read the full passage →

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

He said to him, “Why do you call me good?No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” — 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.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

I saw, in the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book written inside and outside, sealed shut with seven seals. — read the full passage →

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things: — read the full passage →

who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. — read the full passage →

For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. — read the full passage →

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God, — read the full passage →

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel. — read the full passage →

In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you, — read the full passage →

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →