Acts 20:31

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

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

until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

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.

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

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.

But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.

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

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

But now, I say, I am going to Jerusalem, serving the saints.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

On the first day of every week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

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:

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

To these he also showed himself alive after he suffered, by many proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days, and speaking about God’s Kingdom.

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

This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

When he had spent three months there, and a plot was made against him by Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

When they had come to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you all the time,

On the next day, we who were Paul’s companions departed, and came to Caesarea. We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.

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

They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

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.

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.

Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”

Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Without a parable he didn’t speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.

When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

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,

He entered into the synagogue and spoke boldly for a period of three months, reasoning and persuading about the things concerning God’s Kingdom.

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.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

Pray without ceasing.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears, and with trials which happened to me by the plots of the Jews;

in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

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

Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.

He settled his gaze steadfastly on him, until he was ashamed. Then the man of God wept.

Whenever any controversy comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you must warn them, that they not be guilty toward Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you will not be guilty.

Watch and keep them, until you weigh them before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites, and the princes of the fathers’ households of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the rooms of Yahweh’s house.”

Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

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?

but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

He lived there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

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.

When he had gone up, and had broken bread and eaten, and had talked with them a long while, even until break of day, he departed.

Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;

which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

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.

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

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

Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?

neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you,

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.

longing to see you, remembering your tears, that I may be filled with joy;

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

The four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within. They have no rest day and night, saying, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come!”