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but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't brag and deny the truth.

Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy.

But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Therefore, submit to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

Don't criticize one another, brothers. He who criticizes a brother or judges his brother criticizes the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

But as it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves but you. These things have now been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Angels desire to look into these things.

But as the One who called you is holy, you also are to be holy in all your conduct;

but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without defect or blemish.

He was chosen before the foundation of the world but was revealed at the end of the times for you

since you have been born again—not of perishable seed but of imperishable—through the living and enduring word of God.

but the word of the Lord endures forever. And this is the word that was preached as the gospel to you.

Coming to Him, a living stone—rejected by men but chosen and valuable to God—

So honor will come to you who believe, but for the unbelieving, The stone that the builders rejected— this One has become the cornerstone,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

As God's slaves, live as free people, but don't use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.