Prevalent.

Mk. 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? 37 Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

1 Cor. 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Jam. 5:3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

2 Pet. 2:5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an cverthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly.

[See 77, 276, 349, and 416.]

WAR AND FIGHTING.

596. Prevalence of war and fighting.

Gen. 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence.

Ps. 74:20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

Pr. 12:6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.

ls. 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear your hands are full of blood.

Ezk. 33:25 Wherefore, say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land? 26 Ye stand upon your sword, ye work abomination, and ye defile every one his neighbor's wife: and shall ye pos sess the land?

Sin and Folly of Warlike Passions.

Jn. 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth; because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

597. Sin and folly of angry and revengeful passions.

Job 5:2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

Ps. 37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

Pr. 11:17 The merciful man doeth good to his own soul· but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.

13:10 Only by pride cometh contention: but with the welladvised is wisdom.

14: 16 A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident. 17 He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly and a man of wicked devices is hated. 29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

15:18 A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

16:32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.

19:19 A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

22:24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go.

24:17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thy heart be glad when he stumbleth: 18 Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him. 29 Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.

25:28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

26: 17 He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. 21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

Sin, Folly, and Danger of.

Pr. 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

30:33 Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.

Ec. 7:9 Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

Rom. 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. 19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

14:10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of Christ.

1 Cor. 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

Ep. 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. 1 Th. 5:14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be patient toward all men. 15 See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

Heb. 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

1 Pet. 3:8 Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise, blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

598. Sin, folly, and danger of unchristian war and fighting.

Gen. 49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. 6 0 my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united! for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self

Sin, Folly, and Danger of.

will they digged down a wall. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

Ex. 20: 13 Thou shalt not kill. Lk. 18:20.

Lev. 19: 18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself: I am the LORD.

Hab. 2: 12 Wo to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!

Mat. 26:52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword, shall perish with the sword.

Lk. 3: 14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.

1 Cor. 3:3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? 4 For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

Ph. 2:3 Let nothing be done through strife or vain-glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Jam. 2:11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery; said also, Do not kill. Now, if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

3:16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save, and to destroy who art thou that judgest another?

Folly and danger of.

Ps. 5:6 Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the bloody and deceitful man.

Pr. 17:14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

18:6 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

Sin, Folly, and Danger of.

Pr. 29:9 If a wise man contendeth with a foolish man, whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest.

Ezk. 25: 12 Thus saith the Lord GoD; Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and hath greatly offended, and revenged himself upon them; 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; I will also stretch out my hand upon Edom, and will cut off man and beast from it; and I will make it desolate from Teman; and they of Dedan shall fall by the sword. 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GoD..

35:5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: 6 Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

Hos. 4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. 3 Therefore, shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field. and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

Am. 1:11 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof: because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever.

Rom. 2:8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness: indignation and wrath, 9 Tribulation and anguish; upon every soul of man that doeth evil: of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile.

Gal. 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

1 Jn. 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother, is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. Rev. 13:10 He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword, must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable,