The Blueprint

6/30/2020

Matthew 5:25 “Agree with thine adversity quickly.”

Our nation is at war with both a virus of the body and an infection of the soul. There is unrest and fear in both of these areas. Not only is love lacking, but so is a general respect for others. Both issues have become polarizing, creating deep division between young and old, right and left, and putting undue strain on families. Does arguing and digging your heals in ever help to strengthen understanding? Is staying silent the answer? What are we, as believers, to do? The Bible is our blueprint for life, and it is there we should seek our answers. God is very clear how we should treat others in His word.

Luke 6:31 ESV

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Matthew 7:12 ESV

So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Philippians 2:4 ESV

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

John 7:24 ESV

Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.” (The word of God)

Ephesians 4:32 ESV

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Matthew 7:1-6 ESV

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. ...

Galatians 5:14 ESV

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 12:10 ESV

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

John 15:12 ESV

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Matthew 5:44 ESV

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Peter 5:5 ESV

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

Romans 13:10 ESV

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Hebrews 13:2 ESV

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Ephesians 4:31 ESV

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Luke 6:27 ESV

“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

Leviticus 19:18 ESV

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

1 John 4:20-21 ESV

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

1 Timothy 5:1-2 ESV

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Romans 13:8 ESV

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Matthew 25:40 ESV

And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Leviticus 19:16 ESV

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.

Matthew 19:19 ESV

Honor your father and mother, and, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 22:39 ESV 

And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Ephesians 5:21 ESV

Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

John 13:34-35 ESV

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

Chambers gives this encouragement, “Jesus Christ is laying down this principle—Do what you know you must do, now, and do it quickly; if you do not, the inevitable process will begin to work and you will have to pay to the last farthing in pain and agony and distress.” If you think this is unachievable, I have one more verse for you.

Luke 1:37 ESV

For nothing will be impossible with God.”