1 Timothy 3:9

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.

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.

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

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

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn’t know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.

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

But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.

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.

For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,

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.

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.

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”

But he said to them, “Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.

While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing.

I and the Father are one.”

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Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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,

holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

I hold fast to my righteousness, and will not let it go. My heart will not reproach me so long as I live.

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

All vision has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is educated, saying, “Read this, please;” and he says, “I can’t, for it is sealed;”

Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

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

He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.

But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

For if I pray in another language, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.

on my behalf, that utterance may be given to me in opening my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the Good News,

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

the mystery which has been hidden for ages and generations. But now it has been revealed to his saints,

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

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;

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.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that your last works are more than the first.

Hezekiah did so throughout all Judah; and he did that which was good, right, and faithful before Yahweh his God.

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

Jesus, when he was baptized, went up directly from the water: and behold, the heavens were opened to him. He saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove, and coming on him.

These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Let all that you do be done in love.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him

by which, when you read, you can perceive my understanding in the mystery 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.

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

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

but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

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 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

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

But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.

“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.

He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.

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

For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God; for no one understands; but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.