Genesis 13:8

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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.

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

By patience a ruler is persuaded. A soft tongue breaks the bone.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

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

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

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.

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.

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

My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious;

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.

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

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

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

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

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

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?

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

Therefore give everyone what you owe: if you owe taxes, pay taxes; if customs, then customs; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

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;

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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

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

As coals are to hot embers, and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindling strife.

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

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

You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.

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

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

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

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

You were running well! Who interfered with you that you should not obey the truth?

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

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 who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

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.

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

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

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.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

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

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

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

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

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

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

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.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.

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

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

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

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

“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?’

When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan.

He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”

Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” Jacob stayed with him for a month.

He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.

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

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?”

He said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian?” Moses was afraid, and said, “Surely this thing is known.”

Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.

‘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.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

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

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

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

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

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

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

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

Let brotherly love continue.

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,

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

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

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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

Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.

Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.

Then his father and his mother said to him, “Isn’t there a woman among your brothers’ daughters, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?” Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”