being cruel
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17A merciful man benefits his own soul. But whoever is cruel casts out even his close relatives.
21For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness.
26But if anyone considers himself to be religious, but he does not restrain his tongue, but instead seduces his own heart: such a one’s religion is vanity.
3Thus says the Lord: Exercise judgment and justice, and free anyone who is oppressed by violence from the hand of a false accuser. And do not be willing to sadden the new arrival, or the orphan, or the widow, nor should you burden them unfairly. And you shall not shed innocent blood in this place.
24Do not be willing to be a friend to an angry man, and do not walk with a furious man, 25lest perhaps you learn his ways, and take up a stumbling block to your soul.
8And when he has arrived, he will argue against the world, about sin and about justice and about judgment:
4against those who have been paying attention to fables and endless genealogies. These things present questions as if they were greater than the edification that is of God, which is in faith.
44You are of your father, the devil. And you will carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning. And he did not stand in the truth, because the truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks it from his own self. For he is a liar, and the father of lies.
34Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them. For they know not what they do.” And truly, dividing his garments, they cast lots.
4who wants all men to be saved and to arrive at an acknowledgment of the truth.
8But to those who are contentious and who do not acquiesce to the truth, but instead trust in iniquity, he will render wrath and indignation. 9Tribulation and anguish are upon every soul of man that works evil: the Jew first, and also the Greek. 10But glory and honor and peace are for all who do what is good: the Jew first, and also the Greek. 11For there is no favoritism with God. 12For whoever had sinned without the law, will perish without the law. And whoever had sinned in the law, will be judged by the law. 13For it is not the hearers of the law who are just before God, but rather it is the doers of the law who shall be justified.
44But in the days of those kingdoms, the God of heaven will inspire a kingdom that will never be destroyed, and his kingdom will not be handed over to another people, and it will crush and will consume all these kingdoms, and this kingdom itself will stand in eternity.
15But do not be willing to consider him as an enemy; instead, correct him as a brother.
11Whoever does harm, he might still do harm. And whoever is filthy, he might still be filthy. And whoever is just, he may still be just. And one who is holy, he may still be holy.” 12“Behold, I am approaching quickly! And my repayment is with me, to render to each one according to his works.