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Teachings: Five Character Strongholds in the Body of Christ |
Talebearing - Gossiping
Proverbs 26:22
The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.
(KJV)
Backbiting
Psalms 15:1-3
LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
(KJV)
Proverbs 6:14
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
(KJV)
Romans 1:11
For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
(KJV)
Lying
Psalms 101:7
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
(KJV)
Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
(KJV)
Slothfulness
Hebrews 6:12
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
(KJV)
Lust
1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
(KJV)
The answer to defeating the strongholds -
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh,
for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
{We are} destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and {we are} taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,
(NAS)