2 Timothy 2:14

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

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

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.

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

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

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

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

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

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

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;

But refuse foolish and ignorant questionings, knowing that they generate strife.

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

They will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Now the sons of Eli were wicked men. They didn’t know Yahweh.

The fear of Yahweh leads to life, then contentment; he rests and will not be touched by trouble.

The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.

They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.

Don’t be a terror to me. You are my refuge in the day of evil.

“I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

Now Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said to him, “So you say.”

Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”

“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to the living God, who made the sky, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Therefore accept one another, even as Christ also accepted you, to the glory of God.

In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, you being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

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

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

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

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

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

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.

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority; and my people love to have it so. What will you do in the end of it?

“I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

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.

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

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

For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment;

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.

If anyone comes to you, and doesn’t bring this teaching, don’t receive him into your house, and don’t welcome him,

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

Don’t turn away to go after vain things which can’t profit or deliver, for they are vain.

Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

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.

Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.

The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit.

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.

You will mention the message from Yahweh no more: for every man’s own word has become his message; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies, our God.

“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;

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

But now, brothers, if I come to you speaking with other languages, what would I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

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.

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,

of whom are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I delivered to Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

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

men who have erred concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection is already past, and overthrowing the faith of some.

knowing that such a one is perverted and sins, being self-condemned.

I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you,

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

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.