Matthew 24:45

This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

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

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

If you love me, keep my commandments.

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

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

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.

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will serve him.

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

Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.

Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.

But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.

This is a faithful saying: someone who seeks to be an overseer desires a good work.

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

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.

They sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God, the Almighty! Righteous and true are your ways, you King of the nations.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

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

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

who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was in all his house.

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.

for the Lamb who is in the middle of the throne shepherds them and leads them to springs of life-giving waters. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh and in his servant Moses.

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

Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he and certain men out of Judah; and I asked them about the Jews who had escaped, who were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem.

and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple, for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will occupy.” The king granted my requests, because of the good hand of my God on me.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

I am a friend of all those who fear you, of those who observe your precepts.

For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks have scattered.

One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.

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 said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”

For I say through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

yes, making it my aim to preach the Good News, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build on another’s foundation.

For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

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.

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.

Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. The Italians greet you.

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

The men did the work faithfully. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites, of the sons of Merari; and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to give direction; and others of the Levites, who were all skillful with musical instruments.

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

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.

Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

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

According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

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

“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.

Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you, and how your livestock have fared with me.

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

All the wise men, who performed all the work of the sanctuary, each came from his work which he did.

The servant who was set over the reapers answered, “It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab.

Moreover they didn’t demand an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to give to those who did the work; for they dealt faithfully.

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.

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.

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.

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy, and tell them, even the shepherds, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

Then he said to me, “These are the boiling houses, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.”

Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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.”

Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

“He said to him, ‘Well done, you good servant! Because you were found faithful with very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’

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.

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

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.

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

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;

not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.