Ephesians 4:32

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

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

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

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 you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

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

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

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,

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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.

Yahweh is good to all. His tender mercies are over all his works.

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

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

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

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

There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

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

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.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

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

As it is written, “He has scattered abroad. He has given to the poor. His righteousness remains forever.”

But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.

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

Most certainly I tell you, whatever things you bind on earth will have been bound in heaven, and whatever things you release on earth will have been released in heaven.

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

All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”

Let brotherly love continue.

I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, “Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

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

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

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

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

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

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

“ ‘If your brother becomes poor, and sells some of his possessions, then his kinsman who is next to him shall come, and redeem that which his brother has sold.

Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by Yahweh, who has not abandoned his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Naomi said to her, “The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.”

He said, “Who are you?” She answered, “I am Ruth your servant. Therefore spread the corner of your garment over your servant; for you are a near kinsman.”

David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh Gilead, and said to them, “Blessed are you by Yahweh, that you have shown this kindness to your lord, even to Saul, and have buried him.

I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

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

He who has a generous eye will be blessed; for he shares his food with the poor.

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

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

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.

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

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

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.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

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

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

Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.

He said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, his faithfulness to all generations.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

That which makes a man to be desired is his kindness. A poor man is better than a liar.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

A shoot will come out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots will bear fruit.

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.

Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.

“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.

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

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.

The natives showed us uncommon kindness; for they kindled a fire and received us all, because of the present rain and because of the cold.

When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”

I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

If then I don’t know the meaning of the sound, I would be to him who speaks a foreigner, and he who speaks would be a foreigner to me.

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

But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

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.

We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:

He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.

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

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

‘You shall tell Joseph, “Now please forgive the disobedience of your brothers, and their sin, because they did evil to you.” ’ Now, please forgive the disobedience of the servants of the God of your father.” Joseph wept when they spoke to him.

keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”

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

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

A righteous man respects the life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah, “Now put these rags and worn-out garments under your armpits under the cords.” Jeremiah did so.

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins-” (then he said to the paralytic), “Get up, and take up your mat, and go to your house.”

When they couldn’t pay, he forgave them both. Which of them therefore will love him most?”

Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’ ”

Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins,