Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Forgiveness » Forgiving others
You must practice being kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has graciously forgiven you.
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So as God's own chosen people, consecrated and dearly loved, you must once for all clothe yourselves with tenderheartedness, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience; you must keep on forbearing one another and freely forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; just as the Lord has freely forgiven you, so must you also do.
"Be always looking out for another. If your brother ever sins, reprove him, and if he repents, forgive him. Even if he sins against you seven times in a day and seven times turns to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him."
Forgiveness » How many times you should forgive someone
Then Peter came up to Him and asked, "Lord, how many times may my brother wrong me and I have to forgive him? As many as seven?" Jesus answered him: "I tell you, not as many as seven, but as many as seventy times seven!
"Be always looking out for another. If your brother ever sins, reprove him, and if he repents, forgive him. Even if he sins against you seven times in a day and seven times turns to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him."
Jesus Christ » History of » Teaches his disciples concerning offenses, meekness, and humility (in peraea)
Now He said to His disciples: "It is inevitable that snares to evil will come, but a curse be on the man through whom they come! It would be better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck, and he be hurled into the sea, than for him to ensnare one of these lowly ones. "Be always looking out for another. If your brother ever sins, reprove him, and if he repents, forgive him. read more.
Even if he sins against you seven times in a day and seven times turns to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him." Then the apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith." Then the Lord said to them, "If you had faith that grows like a mustard seed, you might have been saying to this mulberry tree, 'Pull yourself up by the roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you! "What man among you, if he has a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and take your seat at the table,' but will not rather say to him, 'Get my supper ready, and dress yourself and wait on me until I eat and drink, and you yourself can eat and drink afterward'? Does he praise the slave for doing what he was ordered to do? So you too, when you do all that you are ordered to do, say, 'We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done.'"
Even if he sins against you seven times in a day and seven times turns to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him." Then the apostles said to the Lord, "Give us more faith." Then the Lord said to them, "If you had faith that grows like a mustard seed, you might have been saying to this mulberry tree, 'Pull yourself up by the roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you! "What man among you, if he has a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and take your seat at the table,' but will not rather say to him, 'Get my supper ready, and dress yourself and wait on me until I eat and drink, and you yourself can eat and drink afterward'? Does he praise the slave for doing what he was ordered to do? So you too, when you do all that you are ordered to do, say, 'We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done.'"
Rebuke » Who to rebuke
"Be always looking out for another. If your brother ever sins, reprove him, and if he repents, forgive him. Even if he sins against you seven times in a day and seven times turns to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him."
Reproof » Duty of administering
Stop having anything to do with the profitless doings of darkness; instead you must continue to expose them.
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preach the message, stay at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people with perfect patience as a teacher.
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Those who are guilty reprove in public, so that others may be warned.
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Now this tendency is true. So continue correcting them severely, that they may be healthy in faith,
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You must continue teaching this, and continue exhorting and reproving people, with full authority. Let no one belittle you.
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"Be always looking out for another. If your brother ever sins, reprove him, and if he repents, forgive him.
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Trespass » Of a brother
"Again, if your brother wrongs you, go and while alone with him show him the wrong. If he listens to you, you have won back your brother. But if he does not listen to you, take along with you one or two others, so as to have every word confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, report it to the church. And if he refuses to listen to the church, treat him as a heathen and as a tax-collector. read more.
I solemnly say to you, whatever you forbid on earth must be already forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth must be already permitted in heaven.
I solemnly say to you, whatever you forbid on earth must be already forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth must be already permitted in heaven.
"Be always looking out for another. If your brother ever sins, reprove him, and if he repents, forgive him. Even if he sins against you seven times in a day and seven times turns to you and says, 'I am sorry,' you must forgive him."