Bible verses about "codependency" | Moffatt

³² you will understand the truth, and the truth will set you free."

²⁶ but the Helper, the holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and recall to you everything I have said.

³³ Such is my own rule, to satisfy all men in all points, aiming not at my own advantage but at the advantage of the greater number — at their salvation.

¹⁹ Thus it is that we may be sure we belong to the truth and reassure ourselves ²⁰ whenever our heart condemns us; for God is greater than our heart, and he knows all.

¹ with the freedom for which Christ set us free. Make a firm stand then, do not slip into any yoke of servitude. ² Here, listen to Paul! I tell you, if you get circumcised, Christ will be no use to you. ³ I insist on this again to everyone who gets circumcised, that he is obliged to carry out the whole of the Law. ⁴ You are for justification by the Law? Then you are done with Christ, you have deserted grace, ⁵ for it is by faith that 'we' wait in the Spirit for the righteousness we hope for; ⁶ in Christ Jesus circumcision is not valid, neither is uncircumcision, but only faith active in love. ⁷ You were doing splendidly. Who was it that prevented you from obeying the Truth? ⁸ That sort of suasion does not come from Him who called you! ⁹ (A morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump.) ¹⁰ I feel persuaded in the Lord that you will not go wrong. But he who unsettles you will have to meet his doom, no matter who he is. ¹¹ I am 'still preaching circumcision myself,' am I? Then, brothers, why am I still being persecuted? And so the stumbling-block of the cross has lost its force, forsooth! ¹² O that those who are upsetting you would get themselves castrated! ¹³ Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love. ¹⁴ For the entire Law is summed up in one word, in You must love your neighbour as yourself ¹⁵ (whereas, if you snap at each other and prey upon each other, take care in case you destroy one another). ¹⁶ I mean, lead the life of the Spirit; then you will never satisfy the passions of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh — the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please. ¹⁸ If you are under the sway of the Spirit, you are not under the Law. ¹⁹ Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality, ²⁰ idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit, ²¹ envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God. ²² But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity, ²³ gentleness, self-control: — there is no law against those who practise such things. ²⁴ Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions. ²⁵ As we live by the Spirit, let us be guided by the Spirit; ²⁶ let us have no vanity, no provoking, no envy of one another.

¹⁶ Once convinced of this, then, I estimate no one by what is external; even though I once estimated Christ by what is external, I no longer estimate him thus. ¹⁷ There is a new creation whenever a man comes to be in Christ; what is old is gone, the new has come. ¹⁸ It is all the doing of the God who has reconciled me to himself through Christ and has permitted me to be a minister of his reconciliation. ¹⁹ For in Christ God reconciled the world to himself instead of counting men's trespasses against them; and he entrusted me with the message of his reconciliation. ²⁰ So I am an envoy for Christ, God appealing by me, as it were — be reconciled to God, I entreat you on behalf of Christ. ²¹ For our sakes He made him to be sin who himself knew nothing of sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

⁷ let all your anxieties fall upon him, for his interest is in you.

⁴ no, God has attested our fitness to be entrusted with the gospel, and so we tell the gospel not to satisfy men but to satisfy the God who tests our hearts.

¹ Even if anyone is detected in some trespass, brothers, you are spiritual, you must set the offender right in a spirit of gentleness; let each of you look to himself, in case he too is tempted. ² Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. ³ If anyone imagines he is somebody, he is deceiving himself, for he is nobody; ⁴ let everyone bring his own work to the test — then he will have something to boast about on his own account, and not in comparison with his fellows. ⁵ For everyone will have to bear his own load of responsibility.

¹⁰ Now is that 'appealing to the interests of men' or of God? Trying to 'satisfy men'? Why, if I still tried to give satisfaction to human masters, I would be no servant of Christ.