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[that is, accept their guidance and discipline as His representatives],
for this is right [for obedience teaches wisdom and self-discipline].
2 Honor [esteem, value as precious] your father and your mother
[and be respectful to them]—
this is the first commandment with a promise—
3 so that it may be well with you, and that you may have a long life on the earth.
be put to death; he has cursed his father or mother; his blood is on him
[that is, he bears full responsibility for the consequences].
And the young vultures will devour it.
and especially for those of his own family, he has denied the faith
[by disregarding its precepts] and is worse than an unbeliever
[who fulfills his obligation in these matters].
the voice of his father or of his mother, and when they reprimand
and discipline him, he will not listen to them,
19 then his father and mother shall take hold of him, and bring him out
to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.
20 “They shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn
and rebellious; he will not obey us, he is a glutton and a drunkard.’
21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death;
so you shall remove the evil from among you,
and all Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
9 For they are a garland of grace on your head,
And chains and ornaments [of gold] around your neck.
13 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not
[a]love [for others growing out of God’s love for me], then I have become
only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal [just an annoying distraction].
2 And if I have the gift of prophecy [and speak a new message from God to the people],
and understand all mysteries, and [possess] all knowledge;
and if I have all [sufficient] faith so that I can remove mountains,
but do not have love [reaching out to others], I am nothing.
3 If I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body
[b]to be burned, but do not have love, it does me no good at all.
treats them contemptuously must be put to death.
James 1:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
James 4:6 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
6 But he gives all the more grace; therefore it says,
“God opposes the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.”
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2 Corinthians 13:5 Amplified Bible (AMP)
5 Examine and test and evaluat
and showing the proper fruits of it. Test and prove yourselves
Do you not yourselves realize and know [thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience]
that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected?
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Galatians 6:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
3 For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
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1 Corinthians 8:2 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
2 Those who think they know something do not yet know anything as they should.
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Luke 10:26-28 New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
26 He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?”
27 He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,
and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
28 And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”