Jeremiah 25:29
25:29 For take note, I am already beginning to bring disaster on the city that I call my own.
So how can you possibly avoid being punished?
You will not go unpunished! For I am proclaiming war against all who live on the earth. I, the
Lord who rules over all,
affirm it!’
Matthew 7:2-4
7:2 For by the standard you judge you will be judged, and the measure you use will be the measure you receive.
7:3 Why
do you see the speck
in your brother’s eye, but fail to see
the beam of wood
in your own?
7:4 Or how can you say
to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own?
Romans 12:20-21
12:20 Rather,
if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in doing this you will be heaping burning coals on his head.
12:21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
Romans 12:1
Consecration of the Believer’s Life
12:1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God – which is your reasonable service.
Romans 4:17-18
4:17 (as it is written, “
I have made you the father of many nations”).
He is our father
in the presence of God whom he believed – the God who
makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.
4:18 Against hope Abraham
believed
in hope with the result that he became
the father of many nations according to the pronouncement,
“
so will your descendants be.”