Gentileza

5 Let your gentleness be made known to all people. The Lord is near.

1 A soft answer will turn away wrath,

but a word of trouble will stir anger.*

24 Pleasant sayings are a honeycomb,

sweetness to the soul and healing to the bones.

5 Live with wisdom toward those outside, making the most of the time. 6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how it is necessary for you to answer each one.

Appeal for New Behavior

12 Therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and dearly loved, put on affection, compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience,

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self control. Against such things there is no law.

10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who belong to the household of faith.

Concluding Ethical Instructions

1 Brotherly love must continue. 2 Do not neglect hospitality, because through this some have received angels as guests without knowing it.

13 Therefore, let us no longer pass judgment on one another, but rather decide this: not to place a cause for stumbling or a temptation before a brother.

17 " ‘You* shall not hate your* brother in your* heart; you* shall surely rebuke your* fellow citizen, so that you* do not incur sin along with* him. 18 You* shall not seek vengeance, and you* shall not harbor a grudge against your* fellow citizens;* and you* shall love your* neighbor like yourself; * I am Yahweh.

9 "Thus says Yahweh of hosts: ‘Judge with trustworthy justice, and show* steadfast love and compassion to one another.*10 You must not oppress the widow, the orphan, the foreigner, and the needy. You must not devise evil in your heart against one another.’*

20 Truly, truly I say to you, the one who receives anyone I send receives me, and the one who receives me receives the one who sent me."