Acts 7:26

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

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.

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

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

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

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

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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

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.”

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

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

Let brotherly love continue.

Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

“Ah Lord Yahweh! Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you.

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren’t you he, Yahweh our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their good, and the good of their children after them.

“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.’

Simon Peter answered, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

But Peter raised him up, saying, “Stand up! I myself am also a man.”

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

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

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

yet to us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we live through him.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

He said with a loud voice, “Fear the Lord, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment has come. Worship him who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and the springs of waters!”

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

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.

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

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

Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

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.

The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.

Don’t you know that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all, and in us all.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve a living and true God,

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:

“Worthy are you, our Lord and God, the Holy One, to receive the glory, the honor, and the power, for you created all things, and because of your desire they existed, and were created!”

Then she said, “Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not as one of your servants.”

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?”

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

“He has made the earth by his power. He has established the world by his wisdom. By his understanding he has stretched out the heavens.

But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant toward James and John.

You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands.

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

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.

So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”

‘Yahweh says, “You shall not go up, nor fight against your brothers! Every man return to his house; for this thing is of me.” ’ ” So they listened to Yahweh’s words, and returned from going against Jeroboam.

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.

Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.

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

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.