Bible verses about "teasing" | Murdock

¹⁵ Moreover, if thy brother commit an offence against thee, go and admonish him between thee and him only. If he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

⁴ Love is long-suffering, and is kind; love is not envious; love is not boisterous; and is not inflated; ⁵ and doth nothing that causeth shame; and seeketh not her own; is not passionate; and thinketh no evil;

¹ I exhort thee, therefore, first of all, that thou present to God supplication, and prayer, and intercession, and thanksgiving, for all men: ² for kings and magistrates, that we may dwell in a quiet and tranquil habitation, with all reverence for God, and with purity. ³ For this is good and acceptable before God our life-giver; ⁴ who would have all men live, and be converted to the knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For God is one; and the mediator between God and men is one, namely the man Jesus the Messiah; ⁶ who gave himself a ransom for every man; a testimony that arrived in due time, ⁷ of which I am constituted a herald and legate. I speak the truth, and do not lie, for I am the teacher of the Gentiles in the belief of the truth. ⁸ I desire therefore, that men may pray in every place, while they lift up their hands with purity, without wrath, and without disputations. ⁹ So also, that women appear in a chaste fashion of dress; and that their adorning be with modesty and chastity; not with curls, or with gold, or with pearls, or with splendid robes; ¹⁰ but with good works, as becometh women who profess reverence for God. ¹¹ Let a woman learn in silence, with all submission: ¹² for I do not allow a woman to teach, or to be assuming over the man; but let her remain in stillness. ¹³ For Adam was first formed, and then Eve. ¹⁴ And Adam was not seduced, but the woman was seduced and transgressed the command. ¹⁵ Yet she shall live by means of her children, if they continue in the faith, and in love, and in sanctity, and in chastity.

⁸ Finally, my brethren, what things are true, and what things are decorous, and what things are right, and what things are pure, and what things are lovely, and what things are commendable, and deeds of praise and approbation, on these be your thoughts.

⁶ Now the tongue is a fire, and the world of sin is like a forest. And this tongue, which is one among our members, marreth our whole body; and it inflameth the series of our generations that roll on like a wheel; and it is itself on fire.

¹³ Who is wise and instructed among you? Let him show his works in praiseworthy actions, with modest wisdom. ¹⁴ But if bitter envy be in you, or contention in your hearts, exalt not yourselves against the truth, and lie not. ¹⁵ For this wisdom cometh not down from above; but is earthly, and from the devices of the soul, and from demons. ¹⁶ For where envy and contention are, there also is confusion, and every thing wrong. ¹⁷ But the wisdom which is from above, is pure, and full of peace, and mild, and submissive, and full of compassion and of good fruits, and without partiality, and without respect of persons. ¹⁸ And the fruits of righteousness are sown in stillness, by them who make peace.

⁴ Neither obscenities, nor words of folly, or of division, or of scurrility, which are not useful; but instead of these, thanksgiving.

⁴ And let not each be solicitous only for himself, but every one also for his neighbor.

²⁹ Let no hateful language come from your mouth, but that which is decorous, and useful for edification, that it may convey grace to those who hear.