1 Thessalonians 5:11

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

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

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

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

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

Let brotherly love continue.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

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

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

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

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

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

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

Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”

Therefore you shall lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

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

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

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

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.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

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.

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

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.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

Therefore many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did believed in him.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.

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.

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

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

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”

But according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

When she had said this, she went away and called Mary, her sister, secretly, saying, “The Teacher is here and is calling you.”

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

They brought the boy in alive, and were greatly comforted.

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

For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

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

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.

Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.