1 Timothy 5:8

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

and has not wronged any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, has taken nothing by robbery, has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

hasn’t wronged any, hasn’t taken anything to pledge, hasn’t taken by robbery, but has given his bread to the hungry, and has covered the naked with a garment;

He answered them, “He who has two coats, let him give to him who has none. He who has food, let him do likewise.”

for a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

Our father said, ‘Go again and buy us a little food.’

There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.” ’

Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

Behold, when we come into the land, tie this line of scarlet thread in the window which you used to let us down. Gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.

Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;

The king of the children of Ammon answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel took away my land when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan. Now therefore restore that territory again peaceably.”

May Yahweh grant you that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband.” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices, and wept.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;

“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels.

Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

When they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

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.

Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

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

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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,

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

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;

Greet one another with a kiss of love. Peace be to all of you who are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

“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.

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner.”

But remember me when it is well with you. Please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.

Only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near: all the banks of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.

You haven’t given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”

You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.’

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

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.

In this confidence, I was determined to come first to you, that you might have a second benefit,

This is the third time I am coming to you. “At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.”

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length you have revived your thought for me; in which you did indeed take thought, but you lacked opportunity.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

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.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house. We are his house, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

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.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

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 rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.

Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened, that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?”

When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”

Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.

Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a true sign;

Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

The woman arose, and did according to the man of God’s word. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

“Return to your house, and declare what great things God has done for you.” He went his way, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?

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.

Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.

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

“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.