Living With Verbal Abuse

A sectarian man, after a first and second admonition be rejecting,

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

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 →

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

and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,

Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

sober, pure, keepers of <FI>their own<Fi> houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

the children! obey the parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing to the Lord;

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

so that if any one <FI>is<Fi> in Christ--<FI> he is<Fi> a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being chief corner-<FI> stone<Fi> ,

the Lord is not slow in regard to the promise, as certain count slowness, but is long-suffering to us, not counselling any to be lost but all to pass on to reformation,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

And these things, brethren, I did transfer to myself and to Apollos because of you, that in us ye may learn not to think above that which hath been written, that ye may not be puffed up one for one against the other,

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 →

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

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,

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

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

For <FI>I<Fi> hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He <FI>who<Fi> hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;

he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

And having called to him his twelve disciples, he gave to them power over unclean spirits, so as to be casting them out, and to be healing every sickness, and every malady.

An eye that mocketh at a father, And despiseth to obey a mother, Dig it out do ravens of the valley, And eat it do young eagles.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

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.

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