Avoid hearing person speak or looking at a writing if you think the other person might be speaking wrongly

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 

 

When I see men wearing long robes, I avoid hearing what such men are speaking, knowing it might be evil or wrong.

 

(Today Catholics and other strange religions often seek praise of men by dressing in what appears to be religious garments.  None of the apostles or ministers in the New Testament Bible are shown to dress in ways to make them appear righteous to other men.)

 

Matthew 23  (Jesus says concerning scribes and Pharisees)

 

5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

 

6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

 

7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

 

8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

 

9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

 

10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.

 

11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

 

12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

 

13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

 

14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

 

15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

 

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Concerning hearing what suspect people say:

 

We do not seek the evil but rather we seek good.

 

If we listen when we suspect evil doing, we will likely sin and become angry by that said by the other person.

 

Matthew 12  (Jesus said)

 

33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

 

34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

 

35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

 

36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

 

37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

 

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What God says, in Holy Bible, about homosexuals/lesbians:

 

Romans 1

 

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

 

23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

 

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

 

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

 

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

 

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

 

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;   

 

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