Malice

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

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

The fool--in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame.

Desist from anger, and forsake fury, Fret not thyself only to do evil. — read the full passage →

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, — read the full passage →

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

`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 →

If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain <FI>is<Fi> the religion;

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

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

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

And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?' — read the full passage →

Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge; — read the full passage →

And thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand at the tribunal of the Christ; — read the full passage →

in which also ye--ye did walk once, when ye lived in them; — read the full passage →

`Ye heard that it was said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and shalt hate thine enemy; — read the full passage →

and--if ye love those loving you, what grace have ye? for also the sinful love those loving them; — read the full passage →

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing, — read the full passage →

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;

Do not say, `I recompense evil,' Wait for Jehovah, and He delivereth thee.

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

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. — read the full passage →

And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already <FI>is<Fi> to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer <FI>is<Fi> our salvation than when we did believe; — read the full passage →

but now put off, even ye, the whole--anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking--out of your mouth.

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

`No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

Then Jesus spake to the multitudes, and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

And it came to pass, he reclining (at meat) in the house, that lo, many tax-gatherers and sinners having come, were lying (at meat) with Jesus and his disciples, — read the full passage →

If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' --ye do well;

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,

And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile: — read the full passage →

`Take heed to yourselves, and, if thy brother may sin in regard to thee, rebuke him, and if he may reform, forgive him, — read the full passage →

Balances of deceit <FI>are<Fi> an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight <FI>is<Fi> His delight.

Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as <FI>are<Fi> grave, as many as <FI>are<Fi> righteous, as many as <FI>are<Fi> pure, as many as <FI>are<Fi> lovely, as many as <FI>are<Fi> of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon; — read the full passage →

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap, — read the full passage →

for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

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

My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,

through him, then, we may offer up a sacrifice of praise always to God, that is, the fruit of lips, giving thanks to His name; — read the full passage →

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

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.

`Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers, — read the full passage →

`Beware! --ye may not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you, that their messengers in the heavens do always behold the face of my Father who is in the heavens,

`Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: True judgment judge ye, And kindness and mercy do one with another.

Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy lips.

Let brotherly love remain;

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry-- — read the full passage →

fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing,

and the multitudes having seen what Paul did, did lift up their voice, in the speech of Lycaonia, saying, `The gods, having become like men, did come down unto us;' — read the full passage →

sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking him that he might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee he reclined (at meat), — read the full passage →

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

And one of the scribes having come near, having heard them disputing, knowing that he answered them well, questioned him, `Which is the first command of all?' — read the full passage →

and Jesus having called them near, said, `Ye have known that the rulers of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those great do exercise authority over them, — read the full passage →

so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged, — read the full passage →

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, — read the full passage →

Pray for us, for we trust that we have a good conscience, in all things willing to behave well,

for we were once--also we--thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious--hating one another;

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted; — read the full passage →

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 →

And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy--`According to the proportion of faith!' — read the full passage →

And as the director of the apartment tasted the water become wine, and knew not whence it is, (but the ministrants knew, who have drawn the water,) the director of the feast doth call the bridegroom,

for many walk of whom many times I told you--and now also weeping tell--the enemies of the cross of the Christ! — read the full passage →

As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord; the same things to write to you to me indeed is not tiresome, and for you <FI>is<Fi> sure;

for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God--

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

The woman saith to him, `Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet; — read the full passage →

that one was not the Light, but--that he might testify about the Light.

and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it. — read the full passage →

`He who is faithful in the least, <FI>is<Fi> also faithful in much; and he who in the least <FI>is<Fi> unrighteous, is also unrighteous in much; — read the full passage →

and having called him, he said to him, What <FI>is<Fi> this I hear about thee? render the account of thy stewardship, for thou mayest not any longer be steward.

`Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed, and shaken, and running over, they shall give into your bosom; for with that measure with which ye measure, it shall be measured to you again.'

And one of the scribes having come near, having heard them disputing, knowing that he answered them well, questioned him, `Which is the first command of all?' — read the full passage →

`And whenever ye may stand praying, forgive, if ye have anything against any one, that your Father also who is in the heavens may forgive you your trespasses;

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →

Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, `Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.' — read the full passage →

And dost bring out to the hungry thy soul, And the afflicted soul dost satisfy, Then risen in the darkness hath thy light, And thy thick darkness <FI>is<Fi> as noon. — read the full passage →

`And God speaketh all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

not giving back evil for evil, or railing for railing, and on the contrary, blessing, having known that to this ye were called, that a blessing ye may inherit;

Let brotherly love remain; — read the full passage →

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; — 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;

And having looked up, he saw those who did cast their gifts to the treasury--rich men, — read the full passage →

Again doth the Devil take him to a very high mount, and doth shew to him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, — read the full passage →

ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,

And it came to pass in Iconium, that they did enter together into the synagogue of the Jews, and spake, so that there believed both of Jews and Greeks a great multitude;

What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him? — read the full passage →

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;

and the Pharisees, having heard that he did silence the Sadducees, were gathered together unto him; — read the full passage →