2 Timothy 3:14

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

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.

For God’s Kingdom is not in word, but in power.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Whoever transgresses and doesn’t remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn’t have God. He who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.

You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

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.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

All these with one accord continued steadfastly in prayer and supplication, along with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

You are witnesses with God how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

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.

Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.

to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you—not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

“Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don’t invoke the name of other gods or even let them be heard out of your mouth.

so is my word that goes out of my mouth: it will not return to me void, but it will accomplish that which I please, and it will prosper in the thing I sent it to do.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

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 these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

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

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.

The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

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 this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

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,

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn’t profit them, because it wasn’t mixed with faith by those who heard.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

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.

having been born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which lives and remains forever.

but the Lord’s word endures forever.” This is the word of Good News which was preached to you.

as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.

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

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts.

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

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

In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

and that our Good News came to you not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and with much assurance. You know what kind of men we showed ourselves to be among you for your sake.

They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

We desire that each one of you may show the same diligence to the fullness of hope even to the end,

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,