The very fact that you have lawsuits among yourselves is already a defeat for you. Why not rather just accept the wrong? Why not rather be cheated?

Do not withhold yourselves from each other unless you agree to do so just for a set time, in order to devote yourselves to prayer. Then you should come together again so that Satan does not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

just as I myself try to please everybody in every way. I don't look out for my own benefit, but rather for the benefit of many people, so that they might be saved.

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, form a single body, so it is with the Messiah.

and she is never rude; she never thinks just of herself or ever gets annoyed. She never is resentful;

Just as we have borne the likeness of the man who was made from dust, we will also bear the likeness of the man from heaven.

I do not want to visit with you now just in passing, because I hope to spend a longer time with you if the Lord permits.

Now concerning our brother Apollos, I strongly urged him to visit you with the other brothers, but he was not inclined to do so just now. However, he will visit you when the time is right.

just as you have already understood us partially, so that on the Day of our Lord Jesus we can be your reason to boast, even as you are ours.

What agreement can a temple of God make with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said: "I will live and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people."

Now I have sent the brothers so that our boasting about you in this matter may not prove to be an idle boast, and so that you may stand ready, just as I said.

Look at the plain facts! If anyone is confident that he belongs to the Messiah, he should remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to the Messiah, so do we.

However, I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by its tricks, so your minds may somehow be lured away from sincere and pure devotion to the Messiah.

In fact, they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel for the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel for the circumcised.

But just as then the son who was conceived according to the flesh persecuted the son who was conceived according to the Spirit, so it is now.

just as he chose us in the Messiah before the creation of the universe to be holy and blameless in his presence. In love

Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else.

and how this secret was made known to me through a revelation, just as I wrote about briefly in the past.

And be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another just as God has forgiven you in the Messiah.

Live lovingly, just as the Messiah also loved us and gave himself for us as an offering and sacrifice, a fragrant aroma to God.

Indeed, just as the church is submissive to the Messiah, so wives must be submissive to their husbands in everything.

But so what? Just this that in every way, whether by false or true motives, the Messiah is being proclaimed. Because of this, I rejoice and will continue to rejoice.

And so, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only when I was with you but even more now that I am absent, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.

It's not that I have already reached this goal or have already become perfect. But I keep pursuing it, hoping somehow to embrace it just as I have been embraced by the Messiah Jesus.

that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit and spreading all over the world, so it has been doing among you from the day you heard it and came to know the grace of God in truth.

So then, just as you have received the Messiah Jesus the Lord, continue to live dependent on him.

For you have been rooted in him and are being built up and strengthened in the faith, just as you were taught, while you continue to be thankful.

Be tolerant of one another and forgive each other if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, you also should forgive.

But Timothy has just now returned from visiting you and has told us the good news about your faith and love. He also told us that you always have fond memories of us and want to see us, just as we want to see you.

May the Lord greatly increase your love for each other and for all people, just as we love you.

Furthermore, you must never take advantage of or exploit a brother in this regard, because the Lord avenges all these things, just as we already told you and warned you.

But the self-indulgent widow is just as good as dead.

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and their faith is a counterfeit.

because if the message spoken by angels was reliable, and every violation and act of disobedience received its just punishment,

He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was in all God's household,

We who have believed are entering that rest, just as he has said, "So in my anger I swore a solemn oath that they would never enter my rest,"

because the one who enters God's rest has himself rested from his own actions, just as God did from his.

No one takes this honor upon himself but he is called to it by God, just as Aaron was.

Just look at how great this man was! Even Abraham the patriarch himself gave him a tenth of what he had captured!

Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,

For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without actions is also dead.

Elijah was a person just like us, and he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and rain never came to the land for three years and six months.

Instead, be holy in every aspect of your life, just as the one who called you is holy.

just as Sarah obeyed Abraham and called him lord. You have become her daughters by doing good and by not letting anything terrify you.

Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there also will be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies and even deny the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction on themselves.

By talking high-sounding nonsense and using sinful cravings of the flesh, they entice people who have just escaped from those who live in error.

Think of our Lord's patience as facilitating salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him.

Little children, it is the last hour. Just as you heard that an antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have appeared. This is how we know it is the last hour.

And everyone who has this hope based on him keeps himself pure, just as the Messiah is pure.

Little children, don't let anyone deceive you. The person who practices righteousness is righteous, just as the Messiah is righteous.

This is how love has been perfected among us: we will have confidence on the day of judgment because, during our time in this world, we are just like him.

I was overjoyed to find some of your children living truthfully, just as the Father has commanded us.

And this is what demonstrates love: that we live according to God's commandments. Just as you have heard from the beginning what he commanded, you must live by it.

Dear friend, I pray that you are doing well in every way and that you are healthy, just as your soul is healthy.

Just hold on to what you have until I come.

"Just as I have received authority from my Father, I will also give him the morning star.

To the one who conquers I will give a place to sit with me on my throne, just as I have conquered and have sat down with my Father on his throne.

They sang the song of God's servant Moses and the song of the lamb: "Your deeds are both spectacular and amazing, Lord God Almighty. Your ways are just and true, King of the nations.

Then I heard the angel in charge of the water say, "You are just. You are the one who is and who was, the Holy One, because you have judged these things.

Then I heard the altar reply, "Yes, Lord God Almighty, your judgments are true and just."

Just as she glorified herself and lived in luxury, inflict on her just as much torture and misery. In her heart she says, "I am a queen on a throne, not a widow. I will never see misery.'

His judgments are true and just. He has condemned the notorious prostitute who corrupted the world with her immorality. He has taken revenge on her for the blood of his servants."