Hate stirs up trouble, but love forgives all offenses.

By our purity, knowledge, patience, and kindness we have shown ourselves to be God's servants---by the Holy Spirit, by our true love,

But the Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Be always humble, gentle, and patient. Show your love by being tolerant with one another.

May you be made strong with all the strength which comes from his glorious power, so that you may be able to endure everything with patience. And with joy give thanks to the Father, who has made you fit to have your share of what God has reserved for his people in the kingdom of light.

You are the people of God; he loved you and chose you for his own. So then, you must clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

who is gentle as you correct your opponents, for it may be that God will give them the opportunity to repent and come to know the truth.

But you have followed my teaching, my conduct, and my purpose in life; you have observed my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

to preach the message, to insist upon proclaiming it (whether the time is right or not), to convince, reproach, and encourage, as you teach with all patience.

But the wisdom from above is pure first of all; it is also peaceful, gentle, and friendly; it is full of compassion and produces a harvest of good deeds; it is free from prejudice and hypocrisy.

Above everything, love one another earnestly, because love covers over many sins.

They refused to obey; they forgot all you did; they forgot the miracles you had performed. In their pride they chose a leader to take them back to slavery in Egypt. But you are a God who forgives; you are gracious and loving, slow to be angry. Your mercy is great; you did not forsake them.

It is a disgrace to be greedy; poor people are better off than liars.

She is generous to the poor and needy.

She speaks with a gentle wisdom.

No! Love your enemies and do good to them; lend and expect nothing back. You will then have a great reward, and you will be children of the Most High God. For he is good to the ungrateful and the wicked.

Be merciful just as your Father is merciful.

Instead, be kind and tender-hearted to one another, and forgive one another, as God has forgiven you through Christ.

You are the people of God; he loved you and chose you for his own. So then, you must clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.

To conclude: you must all have the same attitude and the same feelings; love one another, and be kind and humble with one another.

to your godliness add Christian affection; and to your Christian affection add love.

This is how we know what love is: Christ gave his life for us. We too, then, ought to give our lives for others!

My children, our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.

Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another.

because you still live as the people of this world live. When there is jealousy among you and you quarrel with one another, doesn't this prove that you belong to this world, living by its standards?

But Rachel had not borne Jacob any children, and so she became jealous of her sister and said to Jacob, "Give me children, or I will die."

Joseph's brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept thinking about the whole matter.

He knew very well that the Jewish authorities had handed Jesus over to him because they were jealous.

They are filled with all kinds of wickedness, evil, greed, and vice; they are full of jealousy, murder, fighting, deceit, and malice. They gossip

Let us conduct ourselves properly, as people who live in the light of day---no orgies or drunkenness, no immorality or indecency, no fighting or jealousy.

I am afraid that when I get there I will find you different from what I would like you to be and you will find me different from what you would like me to be. I am afraid that I will find quarreling and jealousy, hot tempers and selfishness, insults and gossip, pride and disorder.

they are envious, get drunk, have orgies, and do other things like these. I warn you now as I have before: those who do these things will not possess the Kingdom of God.

We must not be proud or irritate one another or be jealous of one another.

Of course some of them preach Christ because they are jealous and quarrelsome, but others from genuine good will.

is swollen with pride and knows nothing. He has an unhealthy desire to argue and quarrel about words, and this brings on jealousy, disputes, insults, evil suspicions,

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them.

But if in your heart you are jealous, bitter, and selfish, don't sin against the truth by boasting of your wisdom.

Where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is also disorder and every kind of evil.

Don't think that there is no truth in the scripture that says, "The spirit that God placed in us is filled with fierce desires."

Rid yourselves, then, of all evil; no more lying or hypocrisy or jealousy or insulting language.

David had been thinking, "Why did I ever protect that fellow's property out here in the wilderness? Not a thing that belonged to him was stolen, and this is how he pays me back for the help I gave him!

May God strike me dead if I don't kill every last one of those men before morning!"

Thank God for your good sense and for what you have done today in keeping me from the crime of murder and from taking my own revenge.

The LORD has kept me from harming you. But I swear by the living God of Israel that if you had not hurried to meet me, all of Nabal's men would have been dead by morning!"

from Benhadad: "I will bring enough men to destroy this city of yours and carry off the rubble in their hands. May the gods strike me dead if I don't!"

King Ahab answered, "Tell King Benhadad that a real soldier does his bragging after a battle, not before it."

The wicked succeed in everything. They cannot understand God's judgments; they sneer at their enemies.

Arrogance causes nothing but trouble. It is wiser to ask for advice.

The start of an argument is like the first break in a dam; stop it before it goes any further.

Don't be too quick to go to court about something you have seen. If another witness later proves you wrong, what will you do then?

Otherwise everyone will learn that you can't keep a secret, and you will never live down the shame.

The end of something is better than its beginning. Patience is better than pride.

Keep your temper under control; it is foolish to harbor a grudge.

If your ruler becomes angry with you, do not hand in your resignation; serious wrongs may be pardoned if you keep calm.

Then Nebuchadnezzar lost his temper, and his face turned red with anger at Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. So he ordered the furnace to be heated seven times hotter than usual.

So they tied them up, fully dressed---shirts, robes, caps, and all---and threw them into the blazing furnace.

For your sake, my friends, I have applied all this to Apollos and me, using the two of us as an example, so that you may learn what the saying means, "Observe the proper rules." None of you should be proud of one person and despise another.

Some of you have become proud because you have thought that I would not be coming to visit you.

How, then, can you be proud? On the contrary, you should be filled with sadness, and the man who has done such a thing should be expelled from your fellowship.

Now, concerning what you wrote about food offered to idols. It is true, of course, that "all of us have knowledge," as they say. Such knowledge, however, puffs a person up with pride; but love builds up.

Do not allow yourselves to be condemned by anyone who claims to be superior because of special visions and who insists on false humility and the worship of angels. For no reason at all, such people are all puffed up by their human way of thinking

Your life in Christ makes you strong, and his love comforts you. You have fellowship with the Spirit, and you have kindness and compassion for one another.

Don't do anything from selfish ambition or from a cheap desire to boast, but be humble toward one another, always considering others better than yourselves.

The attitude you should have is the one that Christ Jesus had: