Leviticus 19:14

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against Yahweh in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of Yahweh.

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

But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

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

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.

bless those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

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

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

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.

She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.

No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

You shall not rule over him with harshness, but shall fear your God.

‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,

Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

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

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing, knowing that you were called to this, that you may inherit a blessing.

I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

“ ‘If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.

They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

Then he said, “I have sinned; yet please honor me now before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and come back with me, that I may worship Yahweh your God.”

Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.

This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”

For there is no partiality with God.

True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

What, don’t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God’s assembly and put them to shame who don’t have enough? What shall I tell you? Shall I praise you? In this I don’t praise you.

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

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

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, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

But the midwives feared God, and didn’t do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.

Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid, for God has come to test you, and that his fear may be before you, that you won’t sin.”

but you shall fear Yahweh, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, and you shall bow yourselves to him, and you shall sacrifice to him.

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, “I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.

Gray hair is a crown of glory. It is attained by a life of righteousness.

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

(but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

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

Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

Joseph said to them the third day, “Do this, and live, for I fear God.

But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people; but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and don’t curse.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.