1 Thessalonians 5:22

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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

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

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

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.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

“ ‘You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people. “ ‘You shall not endanger the life of your neighbor. I am Yahweh.

Don’t say, “I will pay back evil.” Wait for Yahweh, and he will save you.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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.

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for. By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

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

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

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

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

“ ‘You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

“ ‘If a man lies with a woman having her monthly period, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made her fountain naked, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood. Both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

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.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

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

“ ‘ “Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”

But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

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.”

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.

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

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.

Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

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

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

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

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

I desire therefore that the younger widows marry, bear children, rule the household, and give no occasion to the adversary for insulting.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

I saw the vision. Now it was so, that when I saw, I was in the citadel of Susa, which is in the province of Elam. I saw in the vision, and I was by the river Ulai.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

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

Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

What if my father touches me? I will seem to him as a deceiver, and I would bring a curse on myself, and not a blessing.”

As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

He killed it; and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

“ ‘If any man lies with her, and her monthly flow is on him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed he lies on shall be unclean.

he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of fermented drink, neither shall he drink any juice of grapes, nor eat fresh grapes or dried.

She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”

Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls, and repaired the foundations.

The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

A wise man fears and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

then Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to receive his portion there, in the middle of the people.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

But, lest we cause them to stumble, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take up the first fish that comes up. When you have opened its mouth, you will find a stater coin. Take that, and give it to them for me and you.”

Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

We are avoiding this, that any man should blame us concerning this abundance which is administered by us.

For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.

It shall be, when he lies down, that you shall note the place where he is lying. Then you shall go in, uncover his feet, and lay down. Then he will tell you what to do.”

Then don’t let your good be slandered,

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.