Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
For whoever serves Christ in this way is pleasing to God and approved by men.
I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to maintain these principles without bias, and to
Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, an unashamed workman who accurately handles the word of truth.
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
and not only by his arrival, but also by the comfort he had received from you. He told us about your longing, your mourn
Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing
Since you call on a Father who judges each one’s work impartially, conduct yourselves in reverent fear during your stay
so that there should be no division in the body, but that its members should have mutual concern for one another.
O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
The punishment imposed on him by the majority is sufficient for him.
That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
Those I love I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
Therefore, while the promise of entering His rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be deemed to have fal
For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting to the Macedonians that since last year you in Achaia were p
“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,
For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You,
While Paul was waiting for them in Athens, he was deeply disturbed in his spirit to see that the city was full of idols.
This saying is trustworthy. And I want you to emphasize these things, so that those who have believed God will take care
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities
And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who
Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit,
Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong—not that we will appear to have stood the test, but that you will
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and de
Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continu
I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take
Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.
because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning—more than watchmen wait for the morning.
When I heard their outcry and these complaints, I became extremely angry,
As soon as the king heard this, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel, and he labored until sun
Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may retu
Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem:
When the steward overtook them, he relayed these words to them.
Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting a
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go in
If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body
Jesus looked around at them with anger and sorrow at their hardness of heart. Then He said to the man, “Stretch out your
His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
A wise man fears and turns from evil, but a fool is careless and reckless.
Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will lo
David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves
My zeal has consumed me because my foes forget Your words.
He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.
yet now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the
Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”