1 Timothy 1:12

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, for all endurance and perseverance with joy,

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner person,

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’ ” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Save me from the lion’s mouth! Yes, you have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen.

Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward you,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Whoever denies the Son doesn’t have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also.

My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

for he who worked through Peter in the apostleship with the circumcised also worked through me with the Gentiles—

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm.”

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

You call me, ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord.’ You say so correctly, for so I am.

Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing what is right.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

Gaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.

I have become foolish in boasting. You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for I am in no way inferior to the very best apostles, though I am nothing.

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.

Working together, we entreat also that you do not receive the grace of God in vain,

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

But Saul increased more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived at Damascus, proving that this is the Christ.

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Yahweh.

I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were counted faithful, and their business was to distribute to their brothers.

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.

that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

I thank God that I baptized none of you, except Crispus and Gaius,

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house.

saying: “We give you thanks, Lord God, the Almighty, the one who is and who was; because you have taken your great power and reigned.