Meddling

Laying hold on the ears of a dog, <FI>Is<Fi> a passer-by making himself wrath for strife not his own.

for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters;

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

`Judge not, that ye may not be judged, — read the full passage →

Without wood is fire going out, And without a tale-bearer, contention ceaseth,

An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

and at the same time also, they learn <FI>to be<Fi> idle, going about the houses; and not only idle, but also tattlers and busybodies, speaking the things they ought not;

but, according as ye have fellowship with the sufferings of the Christ, rejoice ye, that also in the revelation of his glory ye may rejoice--exulting; — read the full passage →

for we hear of certain walking among you disorderly, nothing working, but over working,

A busybody is revealing secret counsel, And the faithful of spirit is covering the matter.

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

A revealer of secret counsels is the busybody, And for a deceiver <FI>with<Fi> his lips make not thyself surety.

A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters; — read the full passage →

In the abundance of words transgression ceaseth not, And whoso is restraining his lips <FI>is<Fi> wise.

`Thou dost not go slandering among thy people; thou dost not stand against the blood of thy neighbour; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

`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.

Thou--who art thou that art judging another's domestic? to his own master he doth stand or fall; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand.

And a certain one said to him, out of the multitude, `Teacher, say to my brother to divide with me the inheritance.' — read the full passage →

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

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;

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

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

`Thou dost not lift up a vain report; thou dost not put thy hand with a wicked man to be a violent witness.

put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil, — read the full passage →

Death and life <FI>are<Fi> in the power of the tongue, And those loving it eat its fruit.

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive, — read the full passage →

And we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw yourselves from every brother disorderly walking, and not after the deliverance that ye received from us,

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

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I--I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

With the mouth a hypocrite corrupteth his friend, And by knowledge the righteous are drawn out.

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

Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips.

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;

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;

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like to it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself;

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;

with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love,

What, then, <FI>is<Fi> the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision? — read the full passage →

I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.

and he sendeth unto him messengers, saying, `What--to me and to thee, O king of Judah? not against thee do I come to-day, but unto the house with which I have war, and God said to haste me; cease for thee from God who <FI>is<Fi> with me, and He doth not destroy thee.'

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

And Moab transgresseth against Israel after the death of Ahab, — read the full passage →

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

and younger widows be refusing, for when they may revel against the Christ, they wish to marry, — read the full passage →

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

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, — read the full passage →

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

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

have ye not known that we shall judge messengers? why not then the things of life?

and now, I did write to you not to keep company with <FI>him<Fi> , if any one, being named a brother, may be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner--with such a one not even to eat together;

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

A wise king is scattering the wicked, And turneth back on them the wheel.

And it cometh to pass, after the death of Saul, that David hath returned from smiting the Amalekite, and David dwelleth in Ziklag two days, — read the full passage →

and the man saith, `This <FI>is<Fi> the <FI>proper<Fi> step! bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!' for this it is called Woman, for from a man hath this been taken; — read the full passage →

`And to the messenger of the assembly of the Smyrneans write: These things saith the First and the Last, who did become dead and did live; — read the full passage →

to the saints in Colossae, and to the faithful brethren in Christ: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

through whom also we have the access by the faith into this grace in which we have stood, and we boast on the hope of the glory of God.

Crooked <FI>is<Fi> the heart above all things, And it <FI>is<Fi> incurable--who doth know it?

Fools mock at a guilt-offering, And among the upright--a pleasing thing.

And it cometh to pass, in the days of the judging of the judges, that there is a famine in the land, and there goeth a man from Beth-Lehem-Judah to sojourn in the fields of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

having judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, `Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy; — read the full passage →

do ye not understand that all that is going into the mouth doth pass into the belly, and into the drain is cast forth? — read the full passage →

Rich and poor have met together, The Maker of them all <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah.

and God completeth by the seventh day His work which He hath made, and ceaseth by the seventh day from all His work which He hath made.

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

for we all make many stumbles; if any one in word doth not stumble, this one <FI>is<Fi> a perfect man, able to bridle also the whole body;

for one <FI>is<Fi> God, one also <FI>is<Fi> mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,

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

honour thy father and mother,

have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?

and this he said, signifying by what death he shall glorify God; and having said this, he saith to him, `Be following me.' — read the full passage →

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come--a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →