Bible verses about "apologizing" | CLV

¹³ Preserve your tongue from evil And your lips from speaking deceit.

¹⁶ For thus God loves the world, so that He gives His only-begotten Son, that everyone who is believing in Him should not be perishing, but may be having life eonian." ¹⁷ For God does not dispatch His Son into the world that He should be judging the world, but that the world may be saved through Him."

¹⁵ Now, if ever your brother should be sinning, go and expose him between you and him alone. If ever he should be hearing you, you gain your brother." ¹⁶ Yet if ever he should not be hearing, take still one or two others along with you, that at the mouth of two witnesses, or of three, every declaration may be made to stand." ¹⁷ Now, if ever he should be disobeying them, tell it to the ecclesia. Now, if ever he should be disobeying the ecclesia also, let him be to you even as the man of the nations, and the tribute collector."

¹ Dare any of you, having business with another, be judged before the unjust, and not before the saints? ² Or are you not aware that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world is being judged by you, are you unworthy of the least tribunals? ³ Are you not aware that we shall be judging messengers, not to mention life's affairs? ⁴ If indeed, then, you should have tribunals for life's affairs, the contemptible in the ecclesia, these you are seating? ⁵ To abash you am I saying this. Thus is there not among you one wise man who will be able to adjudicate amidst his brethren, ⁶ but brother is suing brother, and this before unbelievers!" ⁷ Already, indeed, then, it is absolutely a discomfiture for you that you are having lawsuits among yourselves. Wherefore are you not rather being injured? Wherefore are you not rather being cheated? ⁸ But you are injuring and cheating, and this to brethren!" ⁹ Or are you not aware that the unjust shall not be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom? Be not deceived. Neither paramours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards; no revilers, no extortioners shall be enjoying the allotment of God's kingdom." ¹¹ And some of you were these, but you are bathed off, but you are hallowed, but you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God." ¹² All is allowed me, but not all is expedient. All is allowed me, but I will not be put under its authority by anything." ¹³ Foods for the bowels and the bowels for foods, yet God will be discarding these as well as those. Now the body is not for prostitution, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body." ¹⁴ Now God rouses the Lord also, and will be rousing us up through His power." ¹⁵ Are you not aware that your bodies are members of Christ? Taking, then, the members of Christ away, should I be making them members of a prostitute? May it not be coming to that!" ¹⁶ Or are you not aware that he who joins a prostitute is one body? For, He is averring, the two will be one flesh." ¹⁷ Now he who joins the Lord is one spirit. ¹⁸ Flee from prostitution. The penalty of every sin, whatsoever a man should be doing, is outside of the body, yet he who is committing prostitution is sinning against his own body." ¹⁹ Or are you not aware that your body is a temple of the holy spirit in you, which you have from God, and you are not your own? ²⁰ For you are bought with a price. By all means glorify God in your body.

¹ My little children, these things am I writing to you that you may not be sinning. And if anyone should be sinning, we have an Entreater with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Just." ² And He is the propitiatory shelter concerned with our sins, yet not concerned with ours only, but concerned with the whole world also." ³ And in this we know that we know Him, if we should be keeping His precepts." ⁴ He who is saying that "I know Himand is not keeping His precepts, is a liar, and the truth of God is not in this one." ⁵ Yet whoever may be keeping His word, truly in this one the love of God is perfected. " ⁶ In this we know that we are in Him: he who is saying that he is remaining in Him ought also himself to be walking according as He walks. ⁷ Beloved, I am not writing a new precept to you, but an old precept, which you had from the beginning. The old precept is the word which you hear." ⁸ Again, a new precept am I writing to you, which is true in Him and in you, for the darkness is passing by, and the true light already is appearing." ⁹ He who is saying that he is in the light and is hating his brother is a liar and is in darkness hitherto. ¹⁰ He who is loving his brother is remaining in the light, and there is no snare in him." ¹¹ Yet he who is hating his brother is in darkness and in darkness is walking, and is not aware whither he is going, for the darkness blinds his eyes." ¹² I am writing to you, little children, seeing that your sins have been forgiven you through His name." ¹³ I am writing to you, fathers, seeing that you know Him Who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, youths, seeing that you have conquered the wicked one. I write to you, little children, seeing that you know the Father." ¹⁴ I write to you, fathers, seeing that you know Him Who is from the beginning. I write to you, youths, seeing that you are strong and the word of God is remaining in you, and you have conquered the wicked one." ¹⁵ Be not loving the world, neither that which is in the world. If ever anyone is loving the world, the love of the Father is not in him, ¹⁶ for everything that is in the world, the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of living, is not of the Father, but is of the world." ¹⁷ And the world is passing by, and its desire, yet he who is doing the will of God is remaining for the eon." ¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour, and, according as you hear that the antichrist is coming, now also there have come to be many antichrists, whence we know that it is the last hour." ¹⁹ Out of us they come, but they were not of us, for if they were of us, they would have remained with us. But it was that they may be manifested that they are not all of us. " ²⁰ And you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all are aware." ²¹ I write not to you seeing that you are not acquainted with the truth, but that you are acquainted with it, and that no lie at all is of the truth." ²² Who is the liar, if not he who is denying, saying that "Jesus in not the Christ"? This one is the antichrist, who is disowning the Father and the Son." ²³ Everyone who is disowning the Son, neither has the Father. He who is avowing the Son has the Father also." ²⁴ Let that which you hear from the beginning be remaining in you. If ever that which you hear from the beginning should be remaining in you, you, also, will be remaining in the Son and in the Father." ²⁵ And this is the promise which He promises us: the life eonian. ²⁶ These things I write to you concerning those who are deceiving you. ²⁷ And the anointing which you obtained from Him is remaining in you, and you have no need that anyone may be teaching you, but as His anointing is teaching you concerning all, and is true, and is no lie, according as it teaches you also, remain in Him." ²⁸ And now, little children, remain in Him, that, if He should be manifested, we should be having boldness and not be put to shame by Him in His presence." ²⁹ If you should be perceiving that He is just, you know that everyone also who is doing righteousness is begotten of Him."

¹⁴ Pursue peace with all, and holiness, apart from which no one shall be seeing the Lord;" ¹⁵ supervising, that no one be wanting of the grace of God, nor any root of bitterness, sprouting up, may be annoying you, and through this the majority may be defiled,

²⁵ Now, having perceived their sentiments, He said to them, "Every kingdom parted against itself is being desolated, and every city or house parted against itself shall not stand."

³² yet become kind to one another, tenderly compassionate, dealing graciously among yourselves, according as God also, in Christ, deals graciously with you."

⁷ Beloved, we should be loving one another, for love is of God, and everyone who is loving God is begotten of God, and knows God." ⁸ He who is not loving knew not God, for God is love."

³ Take heed to yourselves. Yet if your brother should be sinning, rebuke him, and if he should ever indeed repent, forgive him." ⁴ And if he should ever be sinning against you seven times a day, and if he should ever be turning about seven times a day to you, saying 'I am repenting,' you shall be forgiving him."

⁴ Love is patient, is kind. Love is not jealous. Love is not bragging, is not puffed up, ⁵ is not indecent, is not self-seeking, is not incensed, is not taking account of evil, ⁶ is not rejoicing in injustice, yet is rejoicing together with the truth, ⁷ is forgoing all, is believing all, is expecting all, is enduring all."

²³ If, then, you should be offering your approach present on the altar, and there you should be reminded that your brother has anything against you, ²⁴ leave your approach present there, in front of the altar, and go away. First be placated toward your brother, and then, coming, be offering your approach present.

¹⁶ Then confess sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The operative petition of the just is availing much."