Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Company » Who not to have company with
We direct you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw from all those of your brethren, whose conduct is irregular, and not agreeable to the instructions they received from us.
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no renegado that deserts the doctrine of Christ, has any interest in the deity: he that adheres to the doctrine of Christ, has an interest both in the father, and in the son. whoever comes to you unaccompanied with this doctrine, don't admit him to your house, nor treat him with the common term of civility. for he who shows that respect to such a man, is accessary to his wicked actions.
When I formerly writ to you, not to keep company with the vicious: I did not mean the vicious Gentiles, the misers, the raparees, or with idolaters; for then you must have gone out of the world. but my meaning was, not to keep company with any christian known to be vicious, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, no not even to eat with such a one. read more.
for what have I to do to judge those who are without the church; but are not you to judge those that are within? those that are without, God will judge. therefore expel the libertine from your community.
for what have I to do to judge those who are without the church; but are not you to judge those that are within? those that are without, God will judge. therefore expel the libertine from your community.
If any one deviate from this doctrine, not adhering to the wholesome instructions of our Lord Jesus Christ, the true doctrine of piety, he is full of pride and ignorance, touch'd with a spirit of chicanery and wrangling, productive of envy, contention, calumny, mischievous opinions, and a familiarity with pernicious ignorant impostors, who consider religion only as it makes for their gain.
Desires » What not to desire
let us not be vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
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Destruction » Who studies destruction
Envy » Forbidden
Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently,
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let us behave with decency as in open view; not with rioting and drunkenness, not with lewdness and brutality, not with strife and envy.
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let us not be vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
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but if envy and contention imbitter your minds, don't think your false pretences can stand against the truth:
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