Leviticus 19:17
17 a“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but byou shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you cincur sin because of him.Psalms 119:80
80May my heart be dblameless in your statutes,ethat I may not be put to shame!
Psalms 141:5
5 fLet a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness;let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head;
let my head not refuse it.
Yet gmy prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
2 Corinthians 7:8-12
8For heven if I made you grieve with my letter, I do not regret it—though iI did regret it, for I see that that letter grieved you, though only for a while. 9As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but jbecause you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us.10For kgodly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas lworldly grief produces death. 11For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, mwhat zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter. 12So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one nwho did the wrong, nor for the sake of the one who suffered the wrong, but in order that your earnestness for us might be revealed to you in the sight of God.
1 Timothy 4:6
A Good Servant of Christ Jesus
6 oIf you put these things before the brothers, ▼▼Or brothers and sisters. The plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) refers to siblings in a family. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, adelphoi may refer either to men or to both men and women who are siblings (brothers and sisters) in God’s family, the church
you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have qfollowed. Titus 2:2
2Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, rsound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.
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