1 Timothy 1:20

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

for whom the Lord loves, he disciplines, and chastises every son whom he receives.”

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

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.

He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

are to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.

Show me a sign of your goodness, that those who hate me may see it, and be shamed, because you, Yahweh, have helped me, and comforted me.

Blessed is the man whom you discipline, Yah, and teach out of your law,

“After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there was a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it. It had ten horns.

“The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

Yes, I beg you that I may not, when present, show courage with the confidence with which I intend to be bold against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, a thorn in the flesh was given to me: a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

Yah has punished me severely, but he has not given me over to death.

An angry man stirs up strife, and a wrathful man abounds in sin.

Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;

But when we are judged, we are punished by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

His affection is more abundantly toward you, while he remembers all of your obedience, how with fear and trembling you received him.

For even if I boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down, I will not be ashamed,

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

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

and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus:

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.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

but shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.

May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you.

Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them according to the operation of their hands. Bring back on them what they deserve.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn your statutes.

Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings,

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

You have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, “My son, don’t take lightly the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him;

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

The priest shall examine the plague in the skin of the body. If the hair in the plague has turned white, and the appearance of the plague is deeper than the body’s skin, it is the plague of leprosy; so the priest shall examine him and pronounce him unclean.

He shall cause the inside of the house to be scraped all over. They shall pour out the mortar that they scraped off outside of the city into an unclean place.

I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

They brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. Alexander beckoned with his hand, and would have made a defense to the people.

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience is made full.

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

For already some have turned away after Satan.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”