1 Timothy 3:10

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

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

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

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.

He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

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

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

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

for he who welcomes him participates in his evil deeds.

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

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.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

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

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.

Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

He said to him, “I also am a prophet as you are; and an angel spoke to me by Yahweh’s word, saying, ‘Bring him back with you into your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’ ” He lied to him.

I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.

“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.’

Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

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.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.

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

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

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.

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

On that day, men were appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited.

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.

Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

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.

Now he who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God,

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

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.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

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.

not to be quickly shaken in your mind, and not be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as if from us, saying that the day of Christ has already come.

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

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

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:

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

by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

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

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.

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.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,