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Ephesians 6:12
King James Version
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities,
against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Who are bullies?
What is bullying?
What makes a person a bully?
What makes a government a bully?
What makes a nation a bully?
Let's find out, through SPIRIT, and Scripture.
Nothing like the WORD of GOD to define "bullies":
Leviticus 19:14
King James Version
14 Thou shalt not curse the deaf,
nor put a stumblingblock before the blind,
but shalt fear thy God:
I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:15
King James Version
15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment:
thou shalt not respect the person of the poor,
nor honor the person of the mighty:
but in righteousness
shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
Leviticus 19:17
King James Version
17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart:
thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour,
and not suffer sin upon him.
Psalm 10:2
King James Version
2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor:
let them be taken in the devices
that they have imagined.
Psalm 10:4
King James Version
4 The wicked,
through the pride of his countenance,
will not seek after God:
God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalm 10:5
King James Version
5 His ways are always grievous;
thy judgments are far above out of his sight:
as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
Psalm 10:7
King James Version
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud:
under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Psalm 10:8
King James Version
8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages:
in the secret places doth he murder the innocent:
his eyes are privily set against the poor.
Psalm 10:9
King James Version
9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den:
he lieth in wait to catch the poor:
he doth catch the poor,
when he draweth him into his net.
Psalm 10:10
King James Version
10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself,
that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Psalm 10:11
King James Version
11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten:
he hideth his face; he will never see it.
King James Version
16 These six things doth the Lord hate:
yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue,
and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19 A false witness that speaketh lies,
and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Isaiah 59:3-8
King James Version
3 For your hands are defiled with blood,
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies,
your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth:
they trust in vanity, and speak lies;
they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs,
and weave the spider's web:
he that eateth of their eggs dieth,
and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments,
neither shall they cover themselves with their works:
their works are works of iniquity,
and the act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil,
and they make haste to shed innocent blood:
their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;
wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they know not;
and there is no judgment in their goings:
they have made them crooked paths:
whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
Matthew 5:11-12
King James Version
11 Blessed are ye,
when men shall revile you,
and persecute you,
and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely,
for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad:
for great is your reward in heaven:
for so persecuted they the prophets
which were before you.
Matthew 15:11
King James Version
11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man;
but that which cometh out of the mouth,
this defileth a man.
Matthew 15:16-20
King James Version
16 And Jesus said,
Are ye also yet without understanding?
17 Do not ye yet understand,
that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth
goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth
come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications,
thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
20 These are the things which defile a man:
but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
John 8:44-45
King James Version
44 Ye are of your father the devil,
and the lusts of your father ye will do.
He was a murderer from the beginning,
and abode not in the truth,
because there is no truth in him.
When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own:
for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth,
ye believe me not.
Romans 14:13
King James Version
13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more:
but judge this rather,
that no man put a stumblingblock
or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
Ephesians 4:29
King James Version
29 Let no corrupt communication proceed
out of your mouth,
but that which is good to the use of edifying,
that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
1 John 2:9
King James Version
9 He that saith he is in the light,
and hateth his brother,
is in darkness even until now.
1 John 3:15
King James Version
15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer:
and ye know that no murderer
hath eternal life abiding in him.
If we've been victimized by bullies, now we know who, and what they are.
If we were not aware we, too, have been bullies, well, now we know.
What happens to bullies?
That's for another post.
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