People Who Are Mean

By David. Do not fret because of evil doers, Be not envious against doers of iniquity, — read the full passage →

Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee. — read the full passage →

`But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you, — read the full passage →

A kind man is rewarding his own soul, And the fierce is troubling his own flesh.

To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, be not silent, — read the full passage →

And I call upon you, brethren, to mark those who the divisions and the stumbling-blocks, contrary to the teaching that ye did learn, are causing, and turn ye away from them;

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

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

`But I say to you who are hearing, Love your enemies, do good to those hating you,

and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth,

and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

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; — read the full passage →

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

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

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;

Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

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

I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am <FI>he<Fi> , ye shall die in your sins.'

Praise ye Jah! For <FI>it is<Fi> good to praise our God, For pleasant--comely <FI>is<Fi> praise. — read the full passage →

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might--through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

And he, having lifted up his eyes to his disciples, said: `Happy the poor--because yours is the reign of God. — read the full passage →

and the nations were angry, and Thine anger did come, and the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give the reward to Thy servants, to the prophets, and to the saints, and to those fearing Thy name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those who are destroying the land.'

Put on, therefore, as choice ones of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humble-mindedness, meekness, long-suffering,

Then said he to them, `But, now, he who is having a bag, let him take <FI>it<Fi> up, and in like manner also a scrip; and he who is not having, let him sell his garment, and buy a sword,

For I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, I have not changed, And ye, the sons of Jacob, Ye have not been consumed.

At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

Without counsels do a people fall, And deliverance <FI>is<Fi> in a multitude of counsellors.

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

Be not envious of evil men, And desire not to be with them. — read the full passage →

The righteous searcheth his companion, And the way of the wicked causeth them to err.

Hatred awaketh contentions, And over all transgressions love covereth.

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, — read the full passage →

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, saying, — read the full passage →

My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand, — read the full passage →

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

And I commend you to Phebe our sister--being a ministrant of the assembly that <FI>is<Fi> in Cenchrea-- — read the full passage →

And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek, — read the full passage →

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends; — read the full passage →

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

The burden of a word of Jehovah on Israel. An affirmation of Jehovah, Stretching out heaven, and founding earth, And forming the spirit of man in his midst. — read the full passage →

`Bad, bad,' saith the buyer, And going his way then he boasteth himself. — read the full passage →

An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.

By David. Unto Thee, O Jehovah, I call, My rock, be not silent to me! Lest Thou be silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit. — read the full passage →

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

Therefore doth law cease, And judgment doth not go forth for ever, For the wicked is compassing the righteous, Therefore wrong judgment goeth forth. — read the full passage →

In transgression of the lips <FI>is<Fi> the snare of the wicked, And the righteous goeth out from distress. — read the full passage →

The Visions of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he hath seen concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

Wisdom hath builded her house, She hath hewn out her pillars--seven. — read the full passage →

To the Overseer, on `The Hind of the Morning.' --A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation, The words of my roaring? — read the full passage →

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; — read the full passage →

And the king Ahasuerus setteth a tribute on the land and the isles of the sea; — 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; — read the full passage →

Bow and javelin they take hold of, Fierce it <FI>is<Fi> , and they have no mercy, Their voice as a sea doth sound, And on horses they ride, set in array as a man of war, Against thee, O daughter of Zion. — read the full passage →

Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth. — read the full passage →

Lest the hearer put thee to shame, And thine evil report turn not back. — read the full passage →

Make sure Thy servant for good, Let not the proud oppress me. — read the full passage →

And I answer him who is reproaching me a word, For I have trusted in Thy word. — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. The affirmation of Jehovah to my Lord: `Sit at My right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.' — read the full passage →

By David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I in mine integrity have walked, And in Jehovah I have trusted, I slide not. — read the full passage →

A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what--do I attend to a virgin? — read the full passage →

and they say unto Joshua, `Surely Jehovah hath given into our hand all the land; and also, all the inhabitants of the land have melted at our presence.' — read the full passage →

and ye answer me and say, Good <FI>is<Fi> the thing which thou hast spoken--to do. — read the full passage →

And Balaam saith unto Balak, `Build for me in this <FI>place<Fi> seven altars, and make ready for me in this <FI>place<Fi> seven bullocks and seven rams.' — read the full passage →

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 →

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

For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time <FI>are<Fi> not worthy <FI>to be compared<Fi> with the glory about to be revealed in us; — read the full passage →

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

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 →

and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

but I--I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire. — read the full passage →

As the former time made light The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, So the latter hath honoured the way of the sea, Beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. — read the full passage →

For <FI>an object of<Fi> desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth. — read the full passage →

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger. — read the full passage →

A wise son--the instruction of a father, And a scorner--he hath not heard rebuke. — read the full passage →

As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.

He who is dwelling In the secret place of the Most High, In the shade of the Mighty lodgeth habitually, — read the full passage →

Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity, — read the full passage →

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly, — read the full passage →

and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.'