Quotes about Admonition

“No one, Lord,” she answered. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Now go and sin no more.”

Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.

Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them.

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”

Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

Do not rebuke an older man, but appeal to him as to a father. Treat younger men as brothers,

You too should beware of him, for he has vigorously opposed our message.

In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.

Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition,

See to it that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if the people did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, how much less will we escape if we reject Him who warns us from heaven?

when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness but with gentleness and respect. . . .

It is to be feared that very many have little knowledge of the main enemy that they carry about them in their bosoms. This makes them ready to justify themselves, and to be impatient of reproof or admonition, not knowing that they are in any danger. 2 Chronicles 16:10