Finally, all of you be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, tenderhearted, humble-minded. Do not repay evil for evil or insult for insult, but give a blessing instead – it is for this reason you were called, so that you might inherit a blessing. 1 Peter 3:8-9
In the same way, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way. Though they are weaker partners, honor them as equal heirs of the grace of life. In this way, your prayers will not be hindered. 1 Peter: 7
Likewise, wives, be submitted to your own husbands so that – even if some do obey the message – by the wives ‘ conduct, without a word they may be won over as they observe your pure, reverent conduct. 1 Peter 3:1-2
For you were called to this, because Messiah also suffered for you, leaving you an example so you might follow in His footsteps: “He committed no sin, nor was any deceit found in His mouth.” When He was abused, He did not return the abuse. While suffering, He made no threats. Instead, He kept entrusting […]
Live as free people, but not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil. Rather, live as God’s slaves. Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king. 1 Peter 2:16-17
Therefore whoever knows the right thing to do and does not do it – for him it is sin. Jacob (James) 4:17
Therefore submit to God. But resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into gloom. Humble yourselves […]
Where do quarrels and conflicts among you come from? Don’t they come from this, namely your passions that battle within your body parts? You crave and have not. You murder and you envy, yet you cannot get it. You fight and you wage war. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask […]
What good is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith, but does not have works? Can such faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in shalom, keep warm and well fed,” but you do not give them what […]
But be doers of the word, not hearers only, deluding yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror – for once he looks at himself and goes away, he immediately forgets what sort of person […]