Job 18:3

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

Let brotherly love continue.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

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

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

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

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

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

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.

Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, since I am a foreigner?”

Please return. Let there be no injustice. Yes, return again. My cause is righteous.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey’s colt.

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

For you have hidden their heart from understanding, Therefore you will not exalt them.

But as for you all, come back. I will not find a wise man among you.

It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

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

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

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

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

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.

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

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

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

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,

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

They said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And Yahweh heard it.

and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also?

Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”

Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.

As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”

His sons went and held a feast in the house of each one on his birthday; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

“No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand which is not in us?

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs.

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

Teach us what we will tell him, for we can’t make our case by reason of darkness.

because God has deprived her of wisdom, neither has he imparted to her understanding.

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.

But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.

They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.

Against you, and you only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight, so you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.

God, you know my foolishness. My sins aren’t hidden from you.

Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”

Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the middle of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in all of its works, like a drunken man staggers in his vomit.

At that time, Jesus answered, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you hid these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to infants.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.

But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”

But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest.

An argument arose among them about which of them was the greatest.

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

“Beware of those scribes who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;

A dispute also arose among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

“I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

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.

He said, “How can I, unless someone explains it to me?” He begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

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

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

If the ear would say, “Because I’m not the eye, I’m not part of the body,” it’s not therefore not part of the body.

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love which you have toward all the saints,

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you toward one another abounds,

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

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.”

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.