Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Cursing » Forbidden
Bless your persecutors, bless, and curse not.
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Bless those who curse you, pray for those who calumniate you.
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From out of the same mouth pour forth blessings and cursings! My brothers, this ought not to be so.
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Inconsistency » General marks of » The double tongue
He who says, "I know Him," but does no continue obeying his commandments, is a liar,
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From out of the same mouth pour forth blessings and cursings! My brothers, this ought not to be so.
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Religion » Inconsistency in religious life general marks of » The double tongue
He who says, "I know Him," but does no continue obeying his commandments, is a liar,
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From out of the same mouth pour forth blessings and cursings! My brothers, this ought not to be so.
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Servants » Servants not being able to serve two masters
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers; for what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? what communion has light with darkness? What concord has Christ with Belial? What portion has a believer with an unbeliever? And what compact has God's temple with idols? For we are a temple of the living God, as he has said: I will dwell among them, and walk about among them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.
"No slave can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will pay heed to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slaves both of God and of gold.
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"No one can be a household servants to two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot be the slave of God and of Mammon."
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On the contrary, what the heathen sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to God, and I do not want you to have communion with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons; you cannot be partakers in the Lord's table and in the table of demons. What! would we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
With it we continually bless our Lord and Father, and with it we are accustomed to curse men made in the image of God. From out of the same mouth pour forth blessings and cursings! My brothers, this ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter? read more.
Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives; or a grape-vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh water.
Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives; or a grape-vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh water.
Speech/communication » The tongue
For in many respects we often stumble. If any man never stumbles in speech, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well. When we put bits in the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we control their whole body also. Look at the ships too, though they are so large, even when driven by fierce winds they are turned by a very small rudder, wherever the impulse of the helmsman wills. read more.
So also the tongue is a small member and makes great boasts. Behold, how great a forest is set on fire by a little spark! And the tongue is a fire; it is a very world of iniquity among our members, defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the wheel of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. For while every kind of beast and bird, and of reptiles and sea-creatures are tamable, and actually have been tamed by mankind, no man can tame the tongue, restless evil that it is, full of deadly poison. With it we continually bless our Lord and Father, and with it we are accustomed to curse men made in the image of God. From out of the same mouth pour forth blessings and cursings! My brothers, this ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives; or a grape-vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh water.
So also the tongue is a small member and makes great boasts. Behold, how great a forest is set on fire by a little spark! And the tongue is a fire; it is a very world of iniquity among our members, defiling the whole body, and setting on fire the wheel of nature, and is itself set on fire by hell. For while every kind of beast and bird, and of reptiles and sea-creatures are tamable, and actually have been tamed by mankind, no man can tame the tongue, restless evil that it is, full of deadly poison. With it we continually bless our Lord and Father, and with it we are accustomed to curse men made in the image of God. From out of the same mouth pour forth blessings and cursings! My brothers, this ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives; or a grape-vine, figs? No more can salt water yield fresh water.