Bible verses about "cliques" | WPNT

¹ Now then, there is no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit, ² because the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of the sin and the death. ³ Further, what the law could not do, in that it was weak due to the flesh, God has done by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned the sin in the flesh, ⁴ so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵ Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. ⁶ Further, the mind-set of the flesh yields death, but the mind-set of the Spirit yields life and peace; ⁷ because the mind-set of the flesh represents enmity against God, since it does not submit to God’s law, nor indeed can it. ⁸ So, those who are ‘in flesh’ cannot please God. ⁹ You, however, are not ‘in flesh’ but ‘in Spirit’, if indeed God’s Spirit dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. ¹⁰ But if Christ is in you, the body is dead through sin, but the Spirit is life through righteousness. ¹¹ And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then He who raised the Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit who dwells in you. ¹² So then, brothers, we have no obligation to the flesh, to live according to it; ¹³ because if you live according to the flesh, you are about to die; but if you put to death the practices of the body, by the Spirit, you will live. ¹⁴ Because as many as are led by God’s Spirit, these are God’s sons ¹⁵ —you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fear all over again, but you did receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father!” ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are God’s children ¹⁷ —if children, also heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ (if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him). ¹⁸ I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is going to be revealed in us. ¹⁹ You see, the creation waits with eager anticipation for the revelation of God’s sons; ²⁰ because without choice the creation was subjected to futility, due to the One who did the subjecting, based on the hope ²¹ that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage to decay into the freedom of the glory of God’s children. ²² Yes, we know that the whole creation has been groaning and in labor pains until now. ²³ Not only that, we ourselves also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we groan within ourselves, eagerly awaiting adoption, the redemption of our body. ²⁴ Yes, we were saved in the hope, but a hope that is seen is not hope—why would anyone hope for what he sees? ²⁵ But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await it with endurance. ²⁶ Likewise also the Spirit comes to the aid of the hope in our weaknesses, since we do not know what we need to pray for. Indeed the Spirit Himself intercedes on our behalf with inexpressible groanings, ²⁷ while He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit’s mind, since He prays for the saints in accordance with God. ²⁸ Further, we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to purpose. ²⁹ Because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰ Further, whom He predestined, these He also called; and whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified. ³¹ What then shall we say to these things? Since God is for us, who is against us? ³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up on behalf of us all, how shall He not with Him also graciously give us all things? ³³ Who will bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? God is He who justifies. ³⁴ Who is he who condemns? Christ is He who died, but even more, was indeed raised, who indeed is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes on our behalf. ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Will it be affliction or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword? ³⁶ (As it is written: “For your sake we are being put to death all day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.”) ³⁷ No, in all these things we prevail completely through Him who loved us. ³⁸ Because I am persuaded that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities nor powers, neither things present nor things to come, ³⁹ neither height nor depth nor any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁶ Regard each other as being on the same level—do not distinguish the upper classes, but associate with the lower classes; do not exalt yourself.

³ Because the time will come when they will not tolerate the sound doctrine; rather, they will accumulate for themselves a great many teachers who will tickle their ears according to their lusts

¹ Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples ² saying: “The scribes and the Pharisees are seated upon Moses’ chair; ³ so whatever they may tell you to observe, you should observe and do; but do not do according to their deeds, for they say and do not do. ⁴ For they package loads that are heavy and hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of the people; but they themselves do not want to move them with one of their fingers. ⁵ “Rather, they do all their works in order to be seen by people. They make their phylacteries broad and the tassels on their garments large; ⁶ they love the place of honor at dinners and the first seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and the greetings in the marketplaces, namely to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by the people. ⁸ “But you (pl.), do not be called ‘Rabbi’; because your Teacher is one, the Christ, and you are all brothers. ⁹ And do not call anyone on earth your ‘father’; because your Father is one, He who is in the heavens. ¹⁰ Neither be called leaders/guides; because your Leader is one, the Christ. ¹¹ On the contrary, the greatest among you must be your servant. ¹² And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. ¹³ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you devour the houses of the widows, while making long prayers as a pretense. Therefore you will receive a greater condemnation. ¹⁴ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!! Because you bar the entrance to the kingdom of the heavens in the face of the people; for you neither go in yourselves nor do you allow those who are trying to enter to go in. ¹⁵ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!!! Because you travel all over, land and sea, to make one convert, and when he joins up you make him twice as much a son of Hell as yourselves. ¹⁶ “Woe to you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is obligated’. ¹⁷ Stupid and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold? ¹⁸ And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it is obligated’. ¹⁹ Stupid and blind!! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift? ²⁰ Therefore he who swears by the altar swears by it and by all the things on it. ²¹ And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by Him who used to dwell in it. ²² And he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it. ²³ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you pay a tithe of mint and dill and cummin, but have neglected the weightier items of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These it was obligatory to do, while not neglecting those. ²⁴ Blind guides, who strain out a gnat but gulp down a camel! ²⁵ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!! Because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of plunder and injustice. ²⁶ Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the inside of the cup and the dish, so that their outside may also be clean. ²⁷ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!!! Because you resemble whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly but inside are full of dead bones and of all uncleanness. ²⁸ Just so you also outwardly appear to be righteous to the people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. ²⁹ “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!!!! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous; ³⁰ yet you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets’. ³¹ Therefore you testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. ³² So fill up the measure of your fathers’ guilt! ³³ “Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape from the condemnation of Hell? ³⁴ So take note: I will send you prophets and wise men and Biblical scholars; some of them you will kill, even crucify; some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from city to city ³⁵ —so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel up to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. ³⁶ Assuredly I say to you that all these things will come upon this generation. ³⁷ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, she who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children, just like a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you did not want to. ³⁸ Look, your house is left to you abandoned! ³⁹ For I say to you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD’!”

¹ My brothers, stop holding the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Glory, with partiality. ² For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothes, should enter your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy rags should also enter, ³ and you pay special attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say to him, “You sit in this special seat,” but to the poor one you say, “You stand there,” or “Sit here at my footstool,” ⁴ have you not been separated among yourselves and become judges with malignant thoughts? ⁵ Listen, my beloved brothers. Has not God chosen the poor of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has promised to those loving Him? ⁶ But you dishonored the poor one. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into courts? ⁷ Do they not blaspheme the noble name that was called upon you? ⁸ If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well; ⁹ but if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors. ¹⁰ For whoever will keep the whole law, yet stumble in one point, has become guilty of all. ¹¹ Because He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. ¹² Speak and act as being those who are about to be judged by a law of liberty ¹³ (the judgment will be without mercy to the one not showing mercy). That law exalts mercy over judgment.

¹⁰ Now I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be restored to the same mind and to the same purpose.