Galatians 5:15

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

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

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

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

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.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

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.”

Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

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

When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

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

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

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and spoke, saying, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.

I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

So I fed the flock of slaughter, especially the oppressed of the flock. I took for myself two staffs. The one I called “Favor”, and the other I called “Union”, and I fed the flock.

When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

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.”

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

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

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

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

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

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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.”

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

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

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.

For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

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

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

Abimelech and the companies that were with him rushed forward and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and the two companies rushed on all who were in the field and struck them.

All the people likewise each cut down his bough, followed Abimelech, and put them at the base of the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.

then they said to him, “Now say ‘Shibboleth;’ ” and he said “Sibboleth”; for he couldn’t manage to pronounce it correctly, then they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time, forty-two thousand of Ephraim fell.

The men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, “We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more claim to David than you. Why then did you despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?” The words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

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

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