If anyone intends to quarrel about this, we have no other practice, nor do the churches of God.

so that now instead you should rather forgive and comfort him. This will keep him from being overwhelmed by excessive grief to the point of despair.

On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

I would rather appeal to you on the basis of love – I, Paul, an old man and even now a prisoner for the sake of Christ Jesus –

And do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

Herod said, “I had John beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” So Herod wanted to learn about Jesus.

Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

He gathered these together, along with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity comes from this business.

And do you think, whoever you are, when you judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself, that you will escape God’s judgment?

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father’s wife.

turn this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

And I know that this man (whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows)

envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

so that he may present the church to himself as glorious – not having a stain or wrinkle, or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.

Now such people we command and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and so provide their own food to eat.

For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We have such a high priest, one who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,

Think of him who endured such opposition against himself by sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls and give up.

But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

“Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me.”