Hurting Other Believers

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

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

for nothing is secret, that shall not become manifest, nor hid, that shall not be known, and become manifest.

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

but I--I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

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

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

no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence. — read the full passage →

whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.

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

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin; — 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 →

no longer, therefore, may we judge one another, but this judge ye rather, not to put a stumbling-stone before the brother, or an offence. — read the full passage →

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

we have known that of God we are, and the whole world in the evil doth lie;

and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but woe <FI>to him<Fi> through whom they come; — read the full passage →

and having made a whip of small cords, he put all forth out of the temple, also the sheep, and the oxen; and of the money-changers he poured out the coins, and the tables he overthrew, — read the full passage →

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

`I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman; — read the full passage →

The goodness of reason and knowledge teach me, For in Thy commands I have believed.

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, — read the full passage →

if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you; — read the full passage →

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation;

and Jesus answered him--`The first of all the commands <FI>is<Fi> , Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one; — read the full passage →

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

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.

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

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

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

because the Lamb that <FI>is<Fi> in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and wipe away shall God every tear from their eyes.'

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;

Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

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;

But what things were to me gains, these I have counted, because of the Christ, loss; — read the full passage →

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

For, indeed, concerning the ministration that <FI>is<Fi> for the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you, — read the full passage →

let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him.

Jesus wept.

Then saith Jesus to him, `Turn back thy sword to its place; for all who did take the sword, by the sword shall perish;

And I saw a great white throne, and Him who is sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven did flee away, and place was not found for them; — read the full passage →

and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

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

And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;

`But thou, when thou mayest pray, go into thy chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who <FI>is<Fi> in secret, and thy Father who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.

Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you; — read the full passage →

every one who is denying the Son, neither hath he the Father, <FI>he who is confessing the Son hath the Father also.<Fi>

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,

As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,

and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it--it doth yield.

reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,

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

because the sayings that Thou hast given to me, I have given to them, and they themselves received, and have known truly, that from Thee I came forth, and they did believe that Thou didst send me.

and they shall come forth; those who did the good things to a rising again of life, and those who practised the evil things to a rising again of judgment.

And he said also to him who did call him, `When thou mayest make a dinner or a supper, be not calling thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kindred, nor rich neighbours, lest they may also call thee again, and a recompense may come to thee; — read the full passage →

But what ye have give ye <FI>as<Fi> alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.

to him who is asking of thee be giving, and him who is willing to borrow from thee thou mayest not turn away.

`Ye are the light of the world, a city set upon a mount is not able to be hid; — read the full passage →

Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold.

For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, — read the full passage →

O my Strength, unto Thee I sing praise, For God <FI>is<Fi> my tower, the God of my kindness!

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

for this <FI>is<Fi> right and acceptable before God our Saviour, — read the full passage →

for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;

Let a man so reckon us as officers of Christ, and stewards of the secrets of God,

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

And he said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one <FI>is<Fi> good except One--God; but if thou dost will to enter into the life, keep the commands.' — read the full passage →

`Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast,

`Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

The counsel of Jehovah to the age standeth, The thoughts of His heart to all generations.

And I saw upon the right hand of Him who is sitting upon the throne a scroll, written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals; — read the full passage →

`And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!

`To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands--the golden: — read the full passage →

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and unfading, reserved in the heavens for you,

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up; — read the full passage →

for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received?

And I, brethren, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly--as to babes in Christ; — read the full passage →

And I am persuaded, my brethren--I myself also--concerning you, that ye yourselves also are full of goodness, having been filled with all knowledge, able also one another to admonish;

for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge,

Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God, — read the full passage →

And the Lord said unto him, `Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings--the sons also of Israel; — read the full passage →

`In that day, in my name ye will make request, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father for you, — read the full passage →

on the morrow John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, `Lo, the Lamb of God, who is taking away the sin of the world;

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →