Philemon 1:12

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Now I also forgive whomever you forgive anything. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

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

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

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

Then he took his oldest son who would have reigned in his place, and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. There was great wrath against Israel; and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

If he sins against you seven times in the day, and seven times returns, saying, ‘I repent,’ you shall forgive him.”

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

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

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill him!” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide him.”

But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yes, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel.

For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.

Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

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

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.

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.

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.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.

Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and hold such people in honor,

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.

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is so that Yahweh has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, they are cursed before Yahweh; for they have driven me out today that I shouldn’t cling to Yahweh’s inheritance, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods!’

So Joab came to the king, and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.

I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.

“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

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.

Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

then I will also cast away the offspring of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his offspring to be rulers over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to be reversed and will have mercy on them.”

because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.

“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.

Jesus said to him, “I don’t tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven.

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

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

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.

He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

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

My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

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.

“I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; for my anger is turned away from him.

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

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.

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

“He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

I coveted no one’s silver, gold, or clothing.

They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh

But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation. I will make you angry with a nation void of understanding.”

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

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

Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

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

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

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.

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

Behold, Yahweh’s word came to him, saying, “This man will not be your heir, but he who will come out of your own body will be your heir.”

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, “Behold, my son, who came out of my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

Open your hearts to us. We wronged no one. We corrupted no one. We took advantage of no one.

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

If then you count me a partner, receive him as you would receive me.

Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.