1 Timothy 3:1

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

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

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

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.

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

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill. Yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth. There was no one who searched or sought.”

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;

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.”

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;

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

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

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

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

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

“Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

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

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

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

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

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.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him, to our God, for he will freely pardon.

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.”

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

“What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

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 the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

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

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.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”

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.

and from there to Philippi, which is a city of Macedonia, the foremost of the district, a Roman colony. We were staying some days in this city.

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

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

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

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

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

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.

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.

For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don’t work at all, but are busybodies.

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

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

Besides, they also learn to be idle, going about from house to house. Not only idle, but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

When the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the crown of glory that doesn’t fade away.

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.”

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

For it is written in the book of Psalms, ‘Let his habitation be made desolate. Let no one dwell in it;’ and, ‘Let another take his office.’

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.

If a Levite comes from any of your gates out of all Israel where he lives, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place which Yahweh shall choose,

The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.

However, knowing this, Jesus said to them, “Why do you trouble the woman? She has done a good work for me.

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

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

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

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

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.

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;

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,

For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.