Meddling

Like one who grabs a dog’s ears is one who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own.

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged. — read the full passage →

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice; that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy. — read the full passage →

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters. — read the full passage →

In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

“‘You shall not go up and down as a slanderer among your people. “‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

One of the multitude said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” — read the full passage →

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

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.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

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

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. — read the full passage →

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. — read the full passage →

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love;

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.

But he sent ambassadors to him, saying, “What have I to do with you, you king of Judah? I come not against you this day, but against the house with which I have war. God has commanded me to make haste. Beware that it is God who is with me, that he not destroy you.”

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, — read the full passage →

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry; — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →

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

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Don’t you know that we will judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

A wise king winnows out the wicked, and drives the threshing wheel over them.

After the death of Saul, when David had returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had stayed two days in Ziklag; — read the full passage →

The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of Man.” — read the full passage →

“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things: — read the full passage →

to the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

having condemnation, because they have rejected their first pledge.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. — read the full passage →

Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body? — read the full passage →

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

For in many things we all stumble. If anyone doesn’t stumble in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

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

“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise:

Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.” — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →