Shunning

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.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain. — read the full passage →

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

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. — read the full passage →

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

for he who welcomes him participates in his evil works.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

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.”

Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming close to him to hear him. — read the full passage →

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed. — read the full passage →

Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.

But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”

Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. — read the full passage →

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; — read the full passage →

To man he said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.’”

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them. — read the full passage →

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” — read the full passage →

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

In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one returns from his wickedness: they have all become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Abstain from every form of evil.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house. — read the full passage →

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

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.”

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.

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

Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. — read the full passage →

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 →

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.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may spread rapidly and be glorified, even as also with you; — read the full passage →

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you.

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don’t even the tax collectors do the same? — read the full passage →

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” — read the full passage →

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners;

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”

For if a man thinks himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

As you enter into the household, greet 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 →

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

As he sat in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples. — read the full passage →

But we know that the law is good, if a man uses it lawfully, — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: — 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 →

Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah! — read the full passage →

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

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, — 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 →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

For what have I to do with also judging those who are outside? Don’t you judge those who are within?

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do? — read the full passage →

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?

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,

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; — read the full passage →

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, — read the full passage →

But into whatever city you enter, and they don’t receive you, go out into its streets and say, — read the full passage →

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. — read the full passage →

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

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

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’you would not have condemned the guiltless. — read the full passage →