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My child, help your father in his old age, and don’t give him grief during his life. (Sirach 3:12 CEB)
‘You shall rise before the gray-headed and honor the aged, and you shall fear your God [with profound reverence]; I am the Lord . (LEVITICUS 19:32 AMP)
“With the aged [you say] is wisdom, And with long life is understanding. (JOB 12:12 AMP)
‘Do not turn to mediums [who pretend to consult the dead] or to spiritists [who have spirits of divination]; do not seek them out to be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God. (LEVITICUS 19:31 AMP)
So repent [change your inner self--your old way of thinking, regret past sins] and return [to God--seek His purpose for your life], so that your sins may be wiped away [blotted out, completely erased], so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord [restoring you like a cool wind on a hot day]; and that He may send [to you] Jesus, the Christ, who has been appointed for you, (ACTS 3:19-20 AMP)
Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful, thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger [patient, reflective, forgiving]; (JAMES 1:19 AMP)
He who is slow to anger has great understanding [and profits from his self-control], But he who is quick-tempered exposes and exalts his foolishness [for all to see]. (PROVERBS 14:29 AMP)
My concern was because of the false brothers [those people masquerading as Christians] who had been secretly smuggled in [to the community of believers].
They had slipped in to spy on the freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to bring us back into bondage [under the Law of Moses]. (GALATIANS 2:4 AMP)