Sibling Rivalry

A soft answer turneth back fury, And a grievous word raiseth up anger.

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 →

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?

if any one may say--`I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God--whom he hath not seen--how is he able to love?

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

If possible--so far as in you--with all men being in peace;

for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that hour what it behoveth <FI>you<Fi> to say.'

`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment; — read the full passage →

murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

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

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren--even together!

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

Every one who is hating his brother--a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

All joy count <FI>it<Fi> , my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; — read the full passage →

The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous; — read the full passage →

to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye.

A brother transgressed against is as a strong city, And contentions as the bar of a palace.

`And he said to him, Child, thou art always with me, and all my things are thine;

rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward <FI>is<Fi> great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

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.

Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called, — read the full passage →

and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea.

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

`Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.

Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ; — read the full passage →

Proud, haughty, scorner <FI>is<Fi> his name, Who is working in the wrath of pride.

And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, `Give me sons, and if there is none--I die.' — read the full passage →

In him was life, and the life was the light of men, — read the full passage →

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — 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,

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

And Jacob dwelleth in the land of his father's sojournings--in the land of Canaan. — 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 →

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

`Do not suppose that I came to throw down the law or the prophets--I did not come to throw down, but to fulfil;

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens. — read the full passage →

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

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

`And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;

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;

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

and the son said to him, Father, I did sin--to the heaven, and before thee, and no more am I worthy to be called thy son.

and having opened his mouth, he was teaching them, saying: