1D To say in our heart that our Master delays is to love the present evil age and not to love the Lord’s appearing — Matt. 24:48; 2 Tim. 4:8, 10; cf. Acts 26:16:
32 “Remember Lot’s wife” (Luke 17:32) means that we should not love and treasure the evil world that God is going to judge and utterly destroy; this is a solemn warning to the world-loving believers — vv. 28-32; cf. Rom. 1:21, 25.
61 We must not judge and condemn our fellow believers but be kind to them, tenderhearted, forgiving them, even as God in Christ forgave us — Luke 6:37; Eph. 4:31-32; cf. 1 Thes. 5:14.
72 We must not revile or criticize our brothers but consider them more excellent than ourselves — 2 Tim. 3:1-2; 1 Pet. 3:8-10; Jude 10; 1 Cor. 6:9-10; Phil. 2:2-4, 29; Rom. 12:3:
8a 毁谤(辱骂)是指我们借着侮辱性的语言,粗鲁地批判和批评圣徒,而使他们内里受苦或受伤。
8a Reviling is when we cause the saints to inwardly suffer pain or to be inwardly wounded by assailing and criticizing them harshly with abusive language.
9b The Lord’s way is to bind up our wounds (healing us) and to pour oil and wine on our wounds (giving us the Holy Spirit and the divine life) — Luke 10:33-34.
10c One of the reasons the church is divided and damaged is that there are reviling words; those who take in reviling words bear the same responsibility as those who speak reviling words; in order for the church to maintain the oneness, we have to withstand reviling words.
11d The consciousness of sin comes from knowing God; in the same way, the consciousness of reviling words comes from the knowledge of the Body; reviling words are opposed to the testimony of the Body.
133 We must not lord it over our fellow believers but serve them as slaves to feed them with the resurrected Christ as the life-giving Spirit — 1 Pet. 5:3; Matt. 20:25-28; cf. Num. 17:8.