Ecclesiastes 4:10

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

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.

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.

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

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.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.

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

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

I told them of the hand of my God which was good on me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. They said, “Let’s rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

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

and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

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

An angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him.

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.

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.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.

Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

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

The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”

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

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

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.

Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, saying, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled something at him while lying in wait, so that he died,

But commission Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you shall see.”

but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye?

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

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.

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

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.

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

Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside.

Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”

Now when Jehoram had risen up over the kingdom of his father, and had strengthened himself, he killed all his brothers with the sword, and also some of the princes of Israel.

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

For the son dishonors the father, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”

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

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

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?

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.

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

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

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

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

Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

He went out the second day, and behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, “Why do you strike your fellow?”

Moses said to Aaron, “What did these people do to you, that you have brought a great sin on them?”

Yahweh was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him. I prayed for Aaron also at the same time.

You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this?

No, my sons; for it is not a good report that I hear! You make Yahweh’s people disobey.

But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

When David had called him, he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.

When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.

Your servant had two sons, and they both fought together in the field, and there was no one to part them, but the one struck the other, and killed him.

But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

At that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him on the way. Now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and the two of them were alone in the field.

I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.”

Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his place, and strengthened himself against Israel.

They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

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’?”