1 Corinthians 9:22

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

“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.

Let brotherly love continue.

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

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the assembly,

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,

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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.

Yahweh’s angel encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

The angel answered him, “I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God. I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

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

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

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,

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.

Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward.”

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

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.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

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

Micaiah said, “Therefore hear Yahweh’s word. I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the army of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

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.

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

“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.” ’

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?

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

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.

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

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

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

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 by any means I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.