1 Timothy 4:6

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

The works of his hands are truth and justice. All his precepts are sure.

I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

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

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the revelations of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

They are more to be desired than gold, yes, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, 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.

I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,

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

“ ‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.

Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can’t save? Yet you, Yahweh, are in the middle of us, and we are called by your name. Don’t leave us.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

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

For everyone who lives on milk is not experienced in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby.

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Your statutes stand firm. Holiness adorns your house, Yahweh, forever more.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

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

These accompanied him as far as Asia: Sopater of Beroea; Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians; Gaius of Derbe; Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him,

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

Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

He said to me, “Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you.” Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

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

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.

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.

for the truth’s sake, which remains in us, and it will be with us forever:

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.

But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

For this cause, we also, since the day we heard this, don’t cease praying and making requests for you, that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

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.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

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.

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach:

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

All my affairs will be made known to you by Tychicus, the beloved brother, faithful servant, and fellow bondservant in the Lord.

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

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.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.

Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.

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.’”

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

But I write the more boldly to you in part, as reminding you, because of the grace that was given to me by God,

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

But that you also may know my affairs, how I am doing, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make known to you all things.

Nevertheless, to the extent that we have already attained, let’s walk by the same rule. Let’s be of the same mind.

even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

of which I was made a servant according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you to fulfill the word of God,

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

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

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

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,

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

Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

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

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,

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

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

But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.