Do not be deceived: Bad company ruins good morals. –1 Corinthians 15:33 (NRSVCE)
Shining As Lights In The World
Therefore my beloved, just as you have always obeyed me, not only in my presence but much more now in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; For it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
Do all things without murmuring and arguing, so that you may be blameless and innocent children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine like stars in the world. It is by holding fast to the Word of Life that I can boast on the day of Christ that I did not run in vain or labor in vain. –Philippians 2:12-16
Judging Others
Do not judge and you will not be judged; Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven, give and it will be given to you. A Disciple is not above the teacher but everyone who is qualified will be like a teacher. Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye but do not notice the log in your own eye? Or how can you say to your neighbor, ‘Friend, let me take out the speck in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye and then you will see more clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.
A Tree and It’s Fruit
No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, for each tree is known by it’s own fruit. Figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.
The good person out of the good treasure of the heart produces good and the evil person out of evil treasure produces evil; For it is out of the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks. –Luke 6:37-45
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