Matthew 18:22

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

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

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

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

“Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

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.

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

He who conceals his sins doesn’t prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

“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.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.

Then Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.

So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

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

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.

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

When he had looked around at them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their hearts, he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored as healthy as the other.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

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

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

for the anger of man doesn’t produce the righteousness of God.

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.

Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.

All these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, “Get out, with all the people who follow you;” and after that I will go out.’ ” He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

“Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.

Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the iniquity of Israel will be sought for, and there will be none; also the sins of Judah, and they won’t be found; for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.

None of his transgressions that he has committed will be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.

Again, when I say to the wicked, “You will surely die;” if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right;

“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.

Forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.

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

Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.

Don’t judge, and you won’t be judged. Don’t condemn, and you won’t be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”

for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ Then they began to celebrate.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

but declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

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

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

Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

He will redeem Israel from all their sins.

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

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

“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”

Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

Therefore the showers have been withheld and there has been no latter rain; yet you have had a prostitute’s forehead and you refused to be ashamed.

Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel?

Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way. God relented of the disaster which he said he would do to them, and he didn’t do it.

and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”

For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.

But Jesus answered, “Let me at least do this”—and he touched his ear, and healed him.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

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

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

I am sending him back. Therefore receive him, that is, my own heart,

Give a portion to seven, yes, even to eight; for you don’t know what evil will be on the earth.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

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

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

If Cain will be avenged seven times, truly Lamech seventy-seven times.”