conversation
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29Let no evil words proceed from your mouth, but only what is good, toward the edification of faith, so as to bestow grace upon those who listen.
6Let your speech be ever graceful, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to respond to each person.
15but in accord with him who has called you: the Holy One. And in every behavior, you yourself must be holy,
22to set aside your earlier behavior, the former man, who was corrupted, by means of desire, unto error,
17But I beg you, brothers, to take note of those who cause dissensions and offenses contrary to the doctrine that you have learned, and to turn away from them.
3And we too were all conversant in these things, in times past, by the desires of our flesh, acting according to the will of the flesh and according to our own thoughts. And so we were, by nature, sons of wrath, even like the others.
23The sacrifice of praise will honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal to him the salvation of God.
7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not confess that Jesus Christ has arrived in the flesh. Such a one as this is a deceiver and an antichrist. 8Be cautious for yourselves, lest you lose what you have accomplished, and so that, instead, you may receive a full reward. 9Everyone who withdraws and does not remain in the doctrine of Christ, does not have God. Whoever remains in the doctrine, such a one as this has both the Father and the Son. 10If anyone comes to you, and does not bring this doctrine, do not be willing to receive him into the house, and do not speak a greeting to him. 11For whoever speaks a greeting to him, is speaking with his evil works.
13Who is wise and well-taught among you? Let him show, by means of good conversation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.
12Let no one despise your youth, but be an example among the faithful in word, in behavior, in charity, in faith, in chastity.
3If anyone teaches otherwise, and does not consent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to that doctrine which is in accord with piety, 4then he is arrogant, knowing nothing, yet languishing amid the questions and quarrels of words. From these arise envy, contention, blasphemy, evil suspicions: 5the conflicts of men who have been corrupted in mind and deprived of truth, who consider profit to be piety.