Living With Verbal Abuse

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and 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 God’s word may not be blasphemed.

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly 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 pleases the Lord.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.

One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have 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 the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.

“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.