1 Timothy 6:20

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.”

Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children—

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.

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

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

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

Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.

Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

that each person who belongs to God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.

All this I have proved in wisdom. I said, “I will be wise;” but it was far from me.

who frustrates the signs of the liars, and makes diviners mad; who turns wise men backward, and makes their knowledge foolish;

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

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

“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.

This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

which he promised before through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that don’t exist, that he might bring to nothing the things that exist,

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You have honor, but we have dishonor.

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

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

These things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

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.

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.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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

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

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

being upset because they taught the people and proclaimed in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

For if in anything I have boasted to him on your behalf, I was not disappointed. But as we spoke all things to you in truth, so our glorying also which I made before Titus was found to be truth.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.

I commit this instruction to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which were given to you before, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

But shun empty chatter, for it will go further in ungodliness,

and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.”

“You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.

He said to me, “This room, which faces toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the duty of the house.

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.

We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown, yet a wisdom not of this world nor of the rulers of this world who are coming to nothing.

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He has taken the wise in their craftiness.”

Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

so that we ourselves boast about you in the assemblies of God for your perseverance and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you endure.

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.

and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

from which things some, having missed the mark, have turned away to vain talking,

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

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.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

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 shun foolish questionings, genealogies, strife, and disputes about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.