Bible verses about "hindering" | YLT

¹⁴ But Jesus said, `Suffer the children, and forbid them not, to come unto me, for of such is the reign of the heavens;'

⁴² and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.

¹³ for those such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,

¹⁶ Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

² All joy count it, my brethren, when ye may fall into temptations manifold; ³ knowing that the proof of your faith doth work endurance, ⁴ and let the endurance have a perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire—in nothing lacking;

¹ Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, ² as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow, ³ if so be ye did taste that the Lord is gracious,
⁴ to whom coming—a living stone—by men, indeed, having been disapproved of, but with God choice, precious, ⁵ and ye yourselves, as living stones, are built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶ Wherefore, also, it is contained in the Writing: `Lo, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on him may not be put to shame;' ⁷ to you, then, who are believing is the preciousness; and to the unbelieving, a stone that the builders disapproved of, this one did become for the head of a corner, ⁸ and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence—who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, —to which also they were set; ⁹ and ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light; ¹⁰ who were once not a people, and are now the people of God; who had not found kindness, and now have found kindness. ¹¹ Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul, ¹² having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.
¹³ Be subject, then, to every human creation, because of the Lord, whether to a king, as the highest, ¹⁴ whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evil-doers, and a praise of those doing good; ¹⁵ because, so is the will of God, doing good, to put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men; ¹⁶ as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God; ¹⁷ to all give ye honour; the brotherhood love ye; God fear ye; the king honour ye. ¹⁸ The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross; ¹⁹ for this is gracious, if because of conscience toward God any one doth endure sorrows, suffering unrighteously; ²⁰ for what renown is it, if sinning and being buffeted, ye do endure it ? but if, doing good and suffering for it, ye do endure, this is gracious with God, ²¹ for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps, ²² who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth, ²³ who being reviled—was not reviling again, suffering—was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously, ²⁴ who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed, ²⁵ for ye were as sheep going astray, but ye turned back now to the shepherd and overseer of your souls.

⁷ Ye were running well; who did hinder you—not to obey the truth?