2 Corinthians 11:29

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

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.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

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

For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

As if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

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.

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

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

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

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,

You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.

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.

My zeal wears me out, because my enemies ignore your words.

Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

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

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

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

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.

All the people came to urge David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, “God do so to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or anything else, until the sun goes down.”

Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

As he thus made his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are crazy! Your great learning is driving you insane!”

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

For you bear with the foolish gladly, being wise.

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.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”,

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

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

“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write: “He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things: “I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are dead.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

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

He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

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

They beckoned to their partners in the other boat, that they should come and help them. They came, and filled both boats, so that they began to sink.

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

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

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

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

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

So then death works in us, but life in you.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified?

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 we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

Abstain from every form of evil.

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.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

They mourned, wept, and fasted until evening, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Yahweh, and for the house of Israel; because they had fallen by the sword.

“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”

Rejoice with those who rejoice. Weep with those who weep.

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

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

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

You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

For if I make you grieve, then who will make me glad but he who is made to grieve by me?

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

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

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

For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, as the enemies of the cross of Christ,

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.