Topic
Living With Verbal Abuse
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A factious man after a first and second admonition refuse;
There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.
Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →
Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
but refuse profane and old wives’ fables. And exercise thyself unto godliness:
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; Butthe rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.
to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — read the full passage →
Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;
There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
Wherefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone;
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.
Owe no man anything, save to love one another: for he that loveth his neighbor hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
Wherefore thou art without excuse, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost practise the same things.
But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.
And Jesus said, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And parting his garments among them, they cast lots.
For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.
The rod and reproof give wisdom; But a child left to himself causeth shame to his mother.
He that spareth his rod hateth his son; But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.
But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judæa and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
There was the true light, even the light which lighteth every man, coming into the world.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.
And he called unto him his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of disease and all manner of sickness.
The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
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