Continuation of Bible Verses from the King of kings' Bible - #136 by cybe
Correction → Repentance → Forgiveness → Reconciliation / Restoration → Peace / Peacemaking
Correction
“Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.”
— Proverbs 9:8 (jahtruth.net)
“For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.”
— Galatians 6:3 (jahtruth.net)
“Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and IF HE REPENT, forgive him.”
— Luke 17:3 (jahtruth.net)
That last one is particularly useful because Christ himself binds correction, repentance and forgiveness into one operation.
Repentance
“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out”
— Acts 3:19 (jahtruth.net)
“As many as I love, I REBUKE AND CHASTEN: be zealous therefore, and repent.”
— Revelation 3:19 (jahtruth.net)
A second important dimension is that Scripture does not present repentance as mere verbal regret. Matthew immediately connects it with fruit—observable change. (jahtruth.net)
Matthew 3:7–10 — repentance and its fruits
Forgiveness
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another”
— Ephesians 4:32 (jahtruth.net)
“Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm [your] love toward him.”
— 2 Corinthians 2:8 (jahtruth.net)
The surrounding 2 Corinthians passage is worth reading because the sequence is not simply wrongdoing → punishment. Paul says there can come a point where correction has accomplished its purpose, and then the community must move toward forgiveness, comfort and renewed love, rather than continuing to crush the person. (jahtruth.net)
2 Corinthians 2:4–11 — correction, forgiveness, comfort and renewed love
Reconciliation / Restoration
“first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.”
— Matthew 5:24 (jahtruth.net)
Galatians gives another important formulation: when someone is “overtaken in a fault,” the intended action is restoration, and the person doing it is explicitly warned to examine himself and proceed in meekness. (jahtruth.net)
Galatians 6:1–5 — restore, bear burdens, examine yourself
Matthew 18 gives the interpersonal procedure: address the fault directly and privately first; if that succeeds, the point is that “thou hast gained thy brother.” The objective is recovery of the relationship, not merely establishing who won the dispute. (jahtruth.net)
Matthew 18:15–22 — fault, hearing, reconciliation and repeated forgiveness
Peace / Peacemaking
“Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.”
— Matthew 5:9 (jahtruth.net)
“Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.”
— Ephesians 4:3 (jahtruth.net)
“If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.”
— Romans 12:18 (jahtruth.net)
“Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
— Romans 12:21 (jahtruth.net)
This is where peace becomes more than “everybody stop arguing.” Ephesians explicitly puts truth, meekness, controlled anger, constructive speech, removal of bitterness and forgiveness inside the same chapter. Peace is therefore not produced by suppressing correction; it is produced by handling truth and conflict correctly. (jahtruth.net)
The three larger passages
These are probably what I would put after the shorter collection, because they show that the categories are not artificial—they actually occur together in Scripture.
Hebrews 12:5–15
Hebrews 12:5–15 — correction → fruit → healing → peace → warning against bitterness
The progression is unusually exact:
rebuke/chastening → accepting correction → “peaceable fruit of righteousness” → healing → following peace → preventing a “root of bitterness.” (jahtruth.net)
The core sentence is:
“nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness”
— Hebrews 12:11 (jahtruth.net)
This may be the single best passage for the whole theme.
James 3:13–4:12
James 3:13–4:12 — wisdom, meekness, strife, peace, pride and judging one another
James begins by asking what wisdom actually looks like in behaviour. It contrasts meek wisdom with envy and strife; describes true wisdom as peaceable, gentle and merciful; asks where fighting comes from; then moves directly into pride, humility and judging one's brother. (jahtruth.net)
Its pivot is:
“And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”
— James 3:18 (jahtruth.net)
For a forum argument, this may be the most diagnostic passage, because it asks not merely what position are you defending? but what kind of behaviour is your supposed wisdom producing?
Ephesians 4:1–32
Ephesians 4 — humility → truth → anger-control → speech → bitterness → forgiveness → peace
The chapter begins with lowliness, meekness, patience and peace, insists on speaking truth in love, then turns directly to anger and communication, and closes by removing bitterness, wrath, clamour and evil-speaking and replacing them with kindness and forgiveness. (jahtruth.net)
The important conceptual point is:
Scripture does not oppose truth and peace. It opposes truth spoken or received through pride, wrath, malice and bitterness.
So the entire collection resolves into:
Correction → Repentance → Forgiveness → Reconciliation → Peace
and underneath all five:
Humility, self-examination, truth, meekness and love.
The opposite trajectory is equally clear:
Pride → refusal of correction → strife → wrath → bitterness → division.