Colossians 1:25

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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.”

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

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

that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest of the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of God which was given me toward 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,

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

But the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.

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

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

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us,

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

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

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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

Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

He must increase, but I must decrease.

Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

but Paul chose Silas and went out, being commended by the brothers to the grace of God.

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

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

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,

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

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcised, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcised—

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

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

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

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.

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.

For this I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

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

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

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

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.

But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

They therefore who were scattered abroad by the oppression that arose about Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except to Jews only.

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

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.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations for his name’s sake;

But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach:

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

of which I was made a servant according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

But to each one of us, the grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”

For this cause I also, when I couldn’t stand it any longer, sent that I might know your faith, for fear that by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labor would have been in vain.

comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from yourselves, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.

I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

From there they sailed to Antioch, from where they had been committed to the grace of God for the work which they had fulfilled.

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

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.

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

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

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.