1 Timothy 1:18

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

Behold, I have today set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to uproot and to tear down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

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

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

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.

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

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

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

What man is there who has planted a vineyard, and has not used its fruit? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use its fruit.

The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

they became aware of it and fled to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra, Derbe, and the surrounding region.

Then the brothers immediately sent out Paul to go as far as to the sea, and Silas and Timothy still stayed there.

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

Having sent into Macedonia two of those who served him, Timothy and Erastus, he himself stayed in Asia for a while.

These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

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

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here.

When this letter has been read among you, cause it to be read also in the assembly of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the letter from Laodicea.

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

having been reminded of the sincere faith that is in you, which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

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

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.

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

“Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

I will strengthen them in Yahweh; and they will walk up and down in his name,” says Yahweh.

“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 if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

He therefore who supplies the Spirit to you and does miracles among you, does he do it by the works of the law, or by hearing of faith?

having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Don’t quench the Spirit.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ:

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;

But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.”

So Moses spoke to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel.

The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

“This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;

“You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.

Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,