Leviticus 21:24

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

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.

for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,

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.

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

to the beloved Apphia, to Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the assembly in your house:

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

Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

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

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

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?

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.

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh;

But you know the proof of him, that as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

to Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

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

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.

I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint elders in every city, as I directed you,

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a command to the children of Israel, and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

You shall stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting day and night seven days, and keep Yahweh’s command, that you don’t die: for so I am commanded.”

Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’ ” Aaron held his peace.

They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.

So Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of Yahweh.

The duty of the sons of Gershon in the Tent of Meeting shall be the tabernacle, the tent, its covering, the screen for the door of the Tent of Meeting,

from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all who enter into the service to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

you shall count them from thirty years old and upward until fifty years old: all who enter in to wait on the service, to do the work in the Tent of Meeting.

“This is what is assigned to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall go in to wait on the service in the work of the Tent of Meeting;

“You shall perform the duty of the sanctuary and the duty of the altar, that there be no more wrath on the children of Israel.

I will raise up a faithful priest for myself who will do according to that which is in my heart and in my mind. I will build him a sure house. He will walk before my anointed forever.

Now the days of David came near that he should die; and he commanded Solomon his son, saying,

However there was no accounting made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.”

David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.

My sons, don’t be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense.”

For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges, who may judge all the people who are beyond the River, who all know the laws of your God; and teach him who doesn’t know them.

My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, he will serve me.

A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.

“ ‘ “But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood,” says the Lord Yahweh.

He said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things.”

For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

For he was counted with us, and received his portion in this ministry.

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.”

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

When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

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.

For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

or service, let’s give ourselves to service; or he who teaches, to his teaching;

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

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

even as you learned of Epaphras our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful servant of Christ on your behalf,

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

But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak: not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.

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

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,

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.

Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

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.

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 remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.

I put my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the governor of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem; for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.

“Behold, I have told you beforehand.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.