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the word of God, which effectually worketh
also in you that believe.”
God’s kind of love “Beareth all things”
As has already been stated, silent
acquiescence to sin and ungodliness is not
a Christian virtue, so to bear all things would
not mean that Christians are to silently
tolerate or ignore evil, ungodliness, and
depravity, but conversely, to bear all things
would include (but is not limited to)
enduring reproach for repudiating sin and
warning of sin’s consequences.
God’s Word clearly instructs Christians to
reprove, rebuke, and admonish one another,
and 1 Thessalonians 5:14 exhorts believers
to warn the unruly. In chapter 13 of the Old
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