Romans 15:2

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

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

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

“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.

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

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.

‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

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

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

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

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word,

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.

A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.

When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, “He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner.”

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

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

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

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.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

Let all that you do be done in love.

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,

May the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,

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

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

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

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,