1 Timothy 1:19

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

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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.

Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved.

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

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

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

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.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

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.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, “Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until today.”

And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

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.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black.

But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels.

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

For I am the least of the apostles, who is not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds,

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

This saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance.

This saying is trustworthy: “For if we died with him, we will also live with him.

not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

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.

He said to me, “These words are faithful and true. The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show to his bondservants the things which must happen soon.”

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

“Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

In this I also practice always having a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

You are alienated from Christ, you who desire to be justified by the law. You have fallen away from grace.

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;

which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind, who concerning the faith are rejected.

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

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

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.