if we don't have the LOVE...we have NOTHING...cause God IS LOVE
plain and simple
Rev 3:19
As many
as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Heb 12:5
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son,
despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
Heb 12:6 For whom the
Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Heb 12:7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
Heb 12:8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye ********, and not sons.
Heb 12:10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he
for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Heb 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless
afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Tit 2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
Tit 2:12
teaching [chastening] us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,
Tit 2:13 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
Tit 2:14 who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.
Tit 2:15 Speak these things, exhort, and
rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you.
Tit 1:13 This witness is true. Wherefore
rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
2Ti 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season;
reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
1Ti 5:20 Them that sin
rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
Paul rebuked in love.
1Co 6:5
I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
1Co 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
1Co 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God:
I speak this to your shame.
Gal 3:1
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Gal 3:3
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
1Ti 1:20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom
I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
1Co 5:3 For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit,
have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.
1Co 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you
in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
1Co 5:5
I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
1Co 5:6 Your boasting is not good Do you not know that
a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?
Gal 5:9 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
1Co 5:7
Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.
Rebuke, chastening/discipline are all a part of true love. As my wife always says; "love is an action".
Heb 5:13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Heb 5:14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who
by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
In Love :wink:
Deedle