2 Timothy 2:18

He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

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

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

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;

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

For as yet they didn’t know the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

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

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

Then your people will all be righteous. They will inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

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.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

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

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.

These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;

Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, “It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways.”

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is of men, it will be overthrown.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.

Now if Christ is preached, that he has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?

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

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

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

let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.

“I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will feed them in justice.” ’

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

“He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters.

“Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

Jesus said to him, “You have said it. Nevertheless, I tell you, after this you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of the sky.”

Jesus said, “I am. You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of the sky.”

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

He said to the disciples, “It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

From now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the power of God.”

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

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, because it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

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 wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

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

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

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

holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

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:

Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

“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.

The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

David himself says in the book of Psalms, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

But Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.

Some Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him. They asked him, saying,

Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him.” Those who were crucified with him also insulted him.

Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!”

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

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

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

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

For already some have turned away after Satan.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.

Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, ‘They always err in their heart, but they didn’t know my ways.’

of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Don’t be deceived, my beloved brothers.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.