1 Corinthians 7:5

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of God’s mouth.’ ”

But he turned, and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men.”

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

“You shall have no other gods before me.

You shall serve Yahweh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.

I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

Therefore when we couldn’t stand it any longer, we thought it good to be left behind at Athens alone,

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

You shall set bread of the presence on the table before me always.

You shall fear Yahweh your God; and you shall serve him, and shall swear by his name.

Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”

But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”

Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

He said to the people, “Be ready by the third day. Don’t have sexual relations with a woman.”

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

You shall fear Yahweh your God. You shall serve him. You shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.

They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped all the springs of water, and cut down all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth all they left was its stones; however the men armed with slings went around it, and attacked it.

All Judah stood before Yahweh, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

Therefore when you do merciful deeds, don’t sound a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may get glory from men. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, “Why do John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t fast?”

He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

and be ready for the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.

Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break out on them.”

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.

For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name. The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He will be called the God of the whole earth.

Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

All the demons begged him, saying, “Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.”

He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”

He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.

The Spirit said to Philip, “Go near, and join yourself to this chariot.”

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

The multitude rose up together against them and the magistrates tore their clothes from them, then commanded them to be beaten with rods.

But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, not lovers of good,

Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband may establish it, or her husband may make it void.

The priest answered David, and said, “I have no common bread, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.”

a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of David’s house apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

“Moreover when you fast, don’t be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.

Jesus said to them, “Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.”

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

and to speak to the priests of the house of Yahweh of Armies, and to the prophets, saying, “Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?”

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

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.