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Pleasant Words from the Gospel

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime... not in dissension
and jealousy. (Romans, 13:13)

Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: "Why are you ar-
guing about having no bread? Don't you know or understand
even yet? Are your hearts too hard to take it in? Do you have
eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don't you re-
member? When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand,
how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?" "Twelve,"
they replied. (Mark, 8:17-19; Matthew 16:8-11)

... When he [Jesus] was in the house, he asked them, "What
were you arguing about on the road?" But they kept quiet be-
cause on the way they had argued about who was the great-

est. Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, "If anyone
wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of
all." (Mark, 9:33-35)

... Stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men
not to teach false doctrines any longer nor to devote themselves
to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controver-
sies rather than God's work—which is by faith. (1 Timothy,
1:3-4)

If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the
sound instruction of... Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, he is
conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy in-
terest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in
envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant fric-

tion between men of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of
the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial
gain. (1 Timothy, 6:3-5)

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