Restoring Friendship

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

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

`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 →

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

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

Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

but I--I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those cursing you, do good to those hating you, and pray for those accusing you falsely, and persecuting you,

Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins; — read the full passage →

redeeming the time, because the days are evil;

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

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

forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you--so also ye;

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 this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — 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,

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

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

Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

and may we consider one another to provoke to love and to good works, — read the full passage →

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

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 →

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,

and, being true in love, we may increase to Him <FI>in<Fi> all things, who is the head--the Christ;

for the sorrow toward God reformation to salvation not to be repented of doth work, and the sorrow of the world doth work death,

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

continually pray ye;

because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world--our faith;

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him, — read the full passage →

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

In the prayer continue ye, watching in it in thanksgiving;

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

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death, — read the full passage →

that they all may be one, as Thou Father <FI>art<Fi> in me, and I in Thee; that they also in us may be one, that the world may believe that Thou didst send me.

in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

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

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

`And the tax-gatherer, having stood afar off, would not even the eyes lift up to the heaven, but was smiting on his breast, saying, God be propitious to me--the sinner!

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

He saith to them--`Moses for your stiffness of heart did suffer you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it hath not been so. — read the full passage →

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

Little children, guard yourselves from the idols! Amen.

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news,

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.

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

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

and over it cherubim of the glory, overshadowing the mercy-seat, concerning which we are not now to speak particularly.

wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,

how that God was in Christ--a world reconciling to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses; and having put in us the word of the reconciliation,

`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; — read the full passage →

And having taken him aside, Peter began to rebuke him, saying, `Be kind to thyself, sir; this shall not be to thee;'

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

and here, indeed, men who die do receive tithes, and there <FI>he<Fi> , who is testified to that he was living,

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, — 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;