Bible verses about "spiteful people" | Riverside

¹ PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, ² to the holy and faithful brethren in Christ in Colossae: Grace be to you and peace from God our Father! ³ We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in praying for you, ⁴ because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love that you have to all the holy ⁵ because of the hope laid up for us in heaven. Of this you have already heard in the true message of the good news ⁶ which has come to you. Just as in all the world it is bearing fruit and growing, so also it is among you since the day that you heard and learned of the grace of God in truth. ⁷ So you learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ in your behalf, ⁸ and who has told us of your love in the Spirit. ⁹ For this reason we also, from the day we heard it, never cease praying for you and asking that you may have full knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual insight, ¹⁰ and that you may live lives worthy of the Lord and please him in every way. May you bear fruit in every good work and grow in the knowledge of God. ¹¹ May you be strengthened with all strength according to his glorious power, so as to have all patience and endurance. ¹² May you joyfully give thanks to the Father who has made you fit to share in the inheritance of the holy in light. ¹³ He has saved us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, ¹⁴ in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins. ¹⁵ He is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation; ¹⁶ for in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, both visible and invisible, whether thrones or lordships or archangels or powers — all things have been created through him and for him, ¹⁷ and he is before all things and in him all things unite. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that he may be first in all things, ¹⁹ because it pleased God to have all his fullness dwell in him ²⁰ and to reconcile all things to himself through him, making peace through the blood of his cross — all things, I say, whether on earth or in heaven. ²¹ And you who were once alienated and enemies in your minds, living in wicked works, he has reconciled ²² by his body of flesh through death, to present you holy and spotless and blameless before him, ²³ if you remain in the faith, firm and steadfast, never moving from the hope of the good news which you have heard and which has been proclaimed in all the creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a servant. ²⁴ Now I rejoice in what I suffer for your sake, and in my turn am filling up in my flesh what was lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the sake of his body, that is, the church. ²⁵ I became a servant of the church according to the commission from God given to me for you, to deliver fully God's message, ²⁶ the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now made plain to his holy ones, ²⁷ to whom God willed to make known what is the glorious wealth of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you the hope of glory. ²⁸ And we are announcing him, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom in order that we may present every man complete in Christ. ²⁹ For this also I labor, wrestling with the energy of him who works powerfully within me.

¹ MY children, I am writing this to you in order that you may not sin. Even if any one sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, who is righteous. ² And he is an atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but for those of the whole world. ³ By this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commands. ⁴ He who says, "I know him," and does not keep his commands, is a liar and truth is not in him. ⁵ But whoever keeps his word, truly in him the love of God has been made perfect. By this we know that we are in him. ⁶ He who says that he is abiding in him ought himself to live as he lived. ⁷ Beloved, I am not writing a new command for you, but an old command, which you have had from the beginning. The old command is the message that you have heard. ⁸ Again I am writing a new command, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining. ⁹ He who says that he is in the light and hates his brother is in darkness still. ¹⁰ He who loves his brother remains in the light and there is no stumbling block in him. ¹¹ He who hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and knows not where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. ¹² I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven for his name's sake. ¹³ I am writing to you, fathers, because you have come to know him who has been from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have conquered the Evil One. I have written to you, little children, because you have come to know the Father. ¹⁴ I have written to you, fathers, because you have come to know him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong and the message of God remains in you and you have conquered the Evil One. ¹⁵ Do not love the world nor the things that are in the world. If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; ¹⁶ for all that is in the world, the passions of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the show and pride of life, is not from the Father, but from the world. ¹⁷ And the world is passing away with its passions. But he who does the will of God endures forever. ¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that Antichrist is coming, even now many Antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us they would have continued with us. But they went out so that it might be plainly seen that not all are of us. ²⁰ You have an anointing from the Holy One and you all know. ²¹ I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it and know that no lie is from the truth. ²² Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is the Antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. ²³ No one who denies the Son has the Father either. He who confesses the Son has the Father also. ²⁴ Let what you have heard from the beginning remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. ²⁵ And this is the promise that he has promised us — the life eternal. ²⁶ I am writing this to you in regard to those who are misleading you. ²⁷ But as for you, the anointing that you have received from him remains in you and you have no need for any one to teach you, but as his anointing teaches you about all things and is true and is no lie and as it has taught you, you must remain in him. ²⁸ And now, little children, remain in him so that if he appears we may have confidence and not shrink in shame from him at his coming. ²⁹ If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one who does righteousness has been born of him.

¹ I BEG, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, supplications, and thanksgivings be made in behalf of all men, ² in behalf of kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all piety and sobriety. ³ This is excellent and pleasing in the sight of God, our Savior, ⁴ who wishes all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave himself as a ransom for all, a fact to be witnessed to at the fitting time. ⁷ To this I was appointed a herald and an apostle — I am telling the truth, I am not lying — a teacher of Gentiles in faith and truth. ⁸ I wish, then, that the men offer prayer in every place, lifting up holy hands without wrath or debate. ⁹ Also that the women adorn themselves in becoming dress modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothes, ¹⁰ but — as is becoming for women professing piety — with good deeds. ¹¹ A woman is to learn in all subjection. ¹² I do not permit a woman to teach or to usurp authority over a man, but she must remain silent. ¹³ Adam was first formed, then Eve. ¹⁴ And Adam was not deceived; the woman was deceived and fell into sin. ¹⁵ But they will be saved through child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

¹ JAMES, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the Twelve Tribes which are scattered in foreign lands: Greeting. ² Think it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into all sorts of trials, ³ since you know that the testing of your faith brings out endurance. ⁴ Let endurance do its complete work, that you may be complete and perfect, lacking in nothing. ⁵ If any one of you is lacking in wisdom, let him ask it from God, who gives to all freely without reproaching, and it will be given to him. ⁶ But he must ask in faith with never a doubt. For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed. ⁷ For that man must not think that he will obtain anything from the Lord — ⁸ a two-minded man unsteady in all his ways. ⁹ Let the lowly brother glory in his high station, ¹⁰ and let the rich brother glory in his lowly station, for he will pass away like a flower of the grass. ¹¹ For the sun rises with scorching heat and dries up the grass, and the flower of it falls and the beauty of its face perishes. So shall the rich man wither in his pursuits. ¹² Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has been tested he will gain the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him. ¹³ No one must say when tempted, "My temptation comes from God." For God cannot be tempted by evil, and he tempts no one. ¹⁴ Every one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own passions and enticed. ¹⁵ Then when passion has conceived it gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is full grown, gives birth to death. ¹⁶ Make no mistake, my beloved brethren, ¹⁷ every good gift and every perfect boon is from above; it descends from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or shadow caused by turning. ¹⁸ Of his own will he made us his children through the message of truth, so that we might be a sort of first fruits of his creatures. ¹⁹ I wish you to know this, my beloved brethren: Every man must be quick to hear, but slow to speak, slow to anger. ²⁰ For a man's anger does not work out God's righteousness. ²¹ So lay aside all that is vile and all that remains of malice, and receive with gentleness the implanted message which can save your souls. ²² Become doers of the message and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. ²³ For if one is a hearer of the message and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror. ²⁴ He looks at himself and is gone, and immediately forgets what sort of man he was. ²⁵ But he who looks earnestly into the perfect law of liberty and continues to do so, and becomes not a forgetful hearer but a doer of work — that man will be blessed in what he does. ²⁶ If any one thinks himself religious while he does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, that man's religion is worthless. ²⁷ Pure and stainless religion in the sight of God the Father is to visit orphans and widows in their trouble and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.

¹ THEN lay aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and every kind of slander, ² and, like new-born babes, long for the reasonable pure milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation, ³ if you have tasted that the Lord is kind. ⁴ Coming to him, a living stone, rejected by men but with the Lord chosen and precious, ⁵ you also as living stones are built up, a spiritual house, and become a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶ Therefore it is contained in Scripture, "See, I am laying in Zion a chosen stone, an honored corner stone. He who has faith in him will not be put to shame." ⁷ To you who have faith is the "honor," but to the unbelieving "the stone which the builders rejected — that has become the corner stone, ⁸ a stone for the foot to strike, a rock to stumble over." Their feet strike the message because of their unbelief, and to this they were destined. ⁹ But you are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may proclaim the virtues of him who called you from darkness into his wonderful light. ¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God: once you had not found compassion, but now you have found compassion. ¹¹ Beloved, I beg you, as foreigners and resident aliens, to shun the passions of the flesh which war against the soul. ¹² Keep your daily life among the Gentiles honorable, so that, although they talk against you as if you were wrongdoers, they may, from your noble deeds that they see, glorify God on the day of inspection. ¹³ Be submissive to every human institution for the Lord's sake, whether to the king as supreme, ¹⁴ or to governors as those sent by him for the punishment of wrongdoers and the praise of those who do good. ¹⁵ For this is the will of God — that by doing good we shall silence the ignorance of thoughtless men. ¹⁶ Live as free men, yet not using freedom as a cloak for wickedness, but as God's slaves. ¹⁷ Honor all men, love the brotherhood, reverence God, honor the king. ¹⁸ Household servants, be submissive with all reverence to your lords, not only to the good and fair, but also to the surly. ¹⁹ For this is grace if for conscience toward God any one bears pain, suffering unjustly. ²⁰ For what credit is it if when you sin and are struck with the fist you are patient? But if though doing well, you suffer and are patient, that is grace in God's sight. ²¹ For to this you were called, because Christ too suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow in his foot-steps. ²² He had done no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth. ²³ When he was reviled he did not revile back; he suffered, but made no threat; he committed himself to him who judges justly. ²⁴ He bore our sins in his own body on the tree that we might die to sins and live to righteousness. ²⁵ For you were going astray like sheep, but have now returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.