Bible Discussion Thread

(This is my RESPONSE on "christie"'s COMMENT dated 9/19/2013 at 8:25am about Proverbs Chapter 22):...If someone tells you a LIE about your spouse and keeps on insisting that it is true, then do this, "Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease" ( proverbs 22:10). MEANING: Let him go, instead of listening to his LIES, because he is creating a fury on your heart against your spouse. But you must do it in a way that he will not feel OFFENDED because God said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself" ( Mark 12:31). In this way, he will stop or cease in talking LIES to you about your spouse. Do this also, "Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go: Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul" ( Proverbs 22:24-25). MEANING: Do not be a friend to him because he talks LIES to you about your spouse which you do not like. It is better to keep yourself away from him than to learn his ways. Being near to him might cause a fire to burst on your heart and soul against him. It may lead you to do something bad against him which is against the bible saying, "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you" ( Matthew 5:44). You can do that even you are not near to him.