Character & Speech

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.

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

Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

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,

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly, or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.

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

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

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

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

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

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

For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

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.

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

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

It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall beyour servant.

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time;

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”

For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.

Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith;

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!

A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

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

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

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;

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

Do all things without murmurings and disputes,

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

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

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.