Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud;

love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth.

For the whole Law is summed up in one commandment: "Love your neighbor as you love yourself."

But if you act like wild animals, hurting and harming each other, then watch out, or you will completely destroy one another.

I urge you, then, to make me completely happy by having the same thoughts, sharing the same love, and being one in soul and mind.

Don't do anything from selfish ambition or from a cheap desire to boast, but be humble toward one another, always considering others better than yourselves.

Remember this, my dear friends! Everyone must be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to become angry.

Human anger does not achieve God's righteous purpose.

Are there any of you who are wise and understanding? You are to prove it by your good life, by your good deeds performed with humility and wisdom.

Such wisdom does not come down from heaven; it belongs to the world, it is unspiritual and demonic.

But the wisdom from above is pure first of all; it is also peaceful, gentle, and friendly; it is full of compassion and produces a harvest of good deeds; it is free from prejudice and hypocrisy.

Then the LORD's angel came to the village of Ophrah and sat under the oak tree that belonged to Joash, a man of the clan of Abiezer. His son Gideon was threshing some wheat secretly in a wine press, so that the Midianites would not see him.

The spirit of the LORD took control of Gideon, and he blew a trumpet to call the men of the clan of Abiezer to follow him.