People Taking Advantage Of You

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. — read the full passage →

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

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. — read the full passage →

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don’t withhold your coat also.

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — 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?

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →

“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. — read the full passage →

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

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. — read the full passage →

Give to him who asks you, and don’t turn away him who desires to borrow from you.

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

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

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — read the full passage →

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves. — read the full passage →

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

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

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

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone will not work, neither let him eat.”

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. — read the full passage →

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. — read the full passage →

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together. — read the full passage →

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.

Give to everyone who asks you, and don’t ask him who takes away your goods to give them back again.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. — read the full passage →

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. — read the full passage →

Let brotherly love continue. — read the full passage →

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

But Peter said, “Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

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,

But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

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

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth. — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, — read the full passage →

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith? — read the full passage →

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; — read the full passage →

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