¹⁰ He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.

¹⁴ We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

¹⁰ For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

³² Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way;

³³ As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

⁷ A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.

³ And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

¹⁰ So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;

¹³ Then let us not be judges of one another any longer: but keep this in mind, that no man is to make it hard for his brother, or give him cause for doubting.

³¹ Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

¹ And he said to his disciples, It is necessary for causes of trouble to come about, but unhappy is he by whom they come.

² It would be well for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea, before he made trouble for any of these little ones.

²¹ But having no root in himself, he goes on for a time; and when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, he quickly becomes full of doubts.