2 Timothy 3:2

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

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

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

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.

Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

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.

“ ‘You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people; but you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am Yahweh.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit.

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

For to this end the Good News was preached even to the dead, that they might be judged indeed as men in the flesh, but live as to God in the spirit.

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

“After this I saw in the night visions, and, behold, there was a fourth animal, awesome and powerful, and exceedingly strong. It had great iron teeth. It devoured and broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with its feet. It was different from all the animals that were before it. It had ten horns.

to grant to us that we, being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, should serve him without fear,

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.

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,

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

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever and ever. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

When they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up out of the abyss will make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them.

God’s temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord’s covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.

A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

Naaman said, “If not, then, please let two mules’ burden of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to Yahweh.

For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

“ ‘ “When I passed by you, and saw you wallowing in your blood, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’ Yes, I said to you, ‘Though you are in your blood, live!’

“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—

Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man, and tell the wind, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” ’ ”

I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live. Then I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it and performed it,” says Yahweh.’ ”

Four great animals came up from the sea, different from one another.

Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

I will sow them among the peoples; and they will remember me in far countries; and they will live with their children, and will return.

The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him, that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be in bondage to sin.

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

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.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

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

who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds for the children of men!

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Should an ax brag against him who chops with it? Should a saw exalt itself above him who saws with it? As if a rod should lift those who lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up someone who is not wood.

“I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, before which three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots: and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.

He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

“The king will do according to his will. He will exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and will speak marvelous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for that which is determined will be done.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves. He was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.

But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

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.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.

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

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

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

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.

However, if you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you do well.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.

People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn’t repent and give him glory.

Great hailstones, about the weight of a talent, came down out of the sky on people. People blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, for this plague is exceedingly severe.

In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.