1 Timothy 4:16

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

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

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

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

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

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

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;

For I am Yahweh. I will speak, and the word that I speak will be performed. It will be no more deferred; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak the word, and will perform it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

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.

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

But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

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

Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.

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

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

Of his own will he gave birth to us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

But the Jews stirred up the devout and prominent women and the chief men of the city, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and threw them out of their borders.

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

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

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

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

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

holding a form of godliness, but having denied its power. Turn away from these, also.

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

Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning,

These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

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.

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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.

When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

Yet if you warn the wicked, and he doesn’t turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.”

Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.

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.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

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,

He has filled them with wisdom of heart to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.

Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it.”

and said to the judges, “Consider what you do, for you don’t judge for man, but for Yahweh; and he is with you in the judgment.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

But if they had stood in my council, then they would have caused my people to hear my words, and would have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”

Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is lawful and right, he will save his soul alive.

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”

But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”

Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,

to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.

or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

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;

Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”

forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.

As I urged you when I was going into Macedonia, stay at Ephesus that you might command certain men not to teach a different doctrine,

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

Therefore I endure all things for the chosen ones’ sake, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

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

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it (not to mention to you that you owe to me even your own self besides).

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

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.

The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”

I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”