family disputes
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15But if your brother has sinned against you, go and correct him, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you will have regained your brother. 16But if he will not listen you, invite with you one or two more, so that every word may stand by the mouth of two or three witnesses. 17And if he will not listen to them, tell the Church. But if he will not listen to the Church, let him be to you like the pagan and the tax collector.
10So then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
10loving one another with fraternal charity, surpassing one another in honor:
1Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members? 2You desire, and you do not have. You envy and you kill, and you are unable to obtain. You argue and you fight, and you do not have, because you do not ask.
19Do not defend yourselves, dearest ones. Instead, step aside from wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is mine. I shall give retribution, says the Lord.”
1Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members? 2You desire, and you do not have. You envy and you kill, and you are unable to obtain. You argue and you fight, and you do not have, because you do not ask. 3You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.
19Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, 20the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions, 21envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
8A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.
12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, against the directors of this world of darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in high places.
35For I came to divide a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36And the enemies of a man will be those of his own household. 37Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.