2 Chronicles 11:4

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

All day long they twist my words. All their thoughts are against me for evil.

him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

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

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

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

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,

Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Judah was defeated by Israel; and each man fled to his tent.

However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

We were also assigned an inheritance in him, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who does all things after the counsel of his will,

The children of Israel carried away captive of their brothers two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters, and also took away much plunder from them, and brought the plunder to Samaria.

How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

“Declare in Egypt, publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say, ‘Stand up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured around you.’

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its width six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes?’

Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?’

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

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.

and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.

Jacob told Rachel that he was her father’s relative, and that he was Rebekah’s son. She ran and told her father.

Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies. You will go out one way against them, and will flee seven ways before them. You will be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not be yours, for they will go into captivity.

So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven; for all his works are truth, and his ways justice; and those who walk in pride he is able to abase.

For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’

But they don’t know the thoughts of Yahweh, neither do they understand his counsel; for he has gathered them like the sheaves to the threshing floor.

But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

“All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Honor all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king.

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.”

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

As the camels had done drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.

She opened it, and saw the child, and behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

David came to the two hundred men, who were so faint that they could not follow David, whom also they had made to stay at the brook Besor; and they went out to meet David, and to meet the people who were with him. When David came near to the people, he greeted them.

There was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

It will happen that like a hunted gazelle, and like sheep that no one gathers, they will each turn to their own people, and will each flee to their own land.

For that day is of the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge himself of his adversaries. The sword will devour and be satiated, and will drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.

Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and Yahweh hasn’t done it?

Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and immediately their eyes received their sight, and they followed him.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

Now in the neighborhood of that place were lands belonging to the chief man of the island, named Publius, who received us, and courteously entertained us for three days.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Don’t you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long will it be then, before you ask the people to return from following their brothers?”

‘Yahweh says, “You shall not go up or fight against your brothers, the children of Israel. Everyone return to his house; for this thing is from me.” ’ ” So they listened to Yahweh’s word, and returned and went their way, according to Yahweh’s word.

A cry went throughout the army about the going down of the sun, saying, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”

The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.

“The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’

Let brotherly love continue.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,