2 Timothy 1:3

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

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

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,

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.

You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years won’t fail.”

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

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.

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

I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

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.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the people, and commanded to put the apostles out for a little while.

The Lord said to him, “Arise, and go to the street which is called Straight, and inquire in the house of Judah for one named Saul, a man of Tarsus. For behold, he is praying,

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;

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.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to Yahweh concerning the frogs which he had brought on Pharaoh.

Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words, and that which was written blamelessly, words of truth.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

But Paul said, “I am a Jew, from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city. I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”

The following night, the Lord stood by him and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

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,

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

I always thank my God concerning you, for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus;

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”

But I call God for a witness to my soul, that I didn’t come to Corinth to spare you.

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.

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

Again, do you think that we are excusing ourselves to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edifying.

For we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray for this: your becoming perfect.

Now about the things which I write to you, behold, before God, I’m not lying.

For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus.

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.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying—a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

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.

Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

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,

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

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

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

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

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

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world.

For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.

I thank my God whenever I remember you,

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

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

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

We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

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

I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

Let your ear now be attentive, and your eyes open, that you may listen to the prayer of your servant, which I pray before you at this time, day and night, for the children of Israel your servants, while I confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against you. Yes, I and my father’s house have sinned.

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

My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?

“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

For there stood by me this night an angel, belonging to the God whose I am and whom I serve,

I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

don’t cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.

But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you,

night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

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

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.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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.