Numbers 8:25

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

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

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.

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 these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.

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.

you shall count them from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old—everyone who enters on the service, to do the work of the Tent of Meeting.

from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered into the service for work in the Tent of Meeting.

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

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

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,

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did all the work.

He raised up the court around the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.

“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;

only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at least those who knew nothing of it before:

The Levites were counted from thirty years old and upward; and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty-eight thousand.

These were the sons of Levi after their fathers’ houses, even the heads of the fathers’ houses of those who were counted individually, in the number of names by their polls, who did the work for the service of Yahweh’s house, from twenty years old and upward.

For by the last words of David the sons of Levi were counted, from twenty years old and upward.

Those who built the wall, and those who bore burdens loaded themselves; everyone with one of his hands did the work, and with the other held his weapon.

For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.

They shall be as mighty men, treading down muddy streets in the battle; and they shall fight, because Yahweh is with them; and the riders on horses will be confounded.

Those in the good ground, these are those who with an honest and good heart, having heard the word, hold it tightly, and produce fruit with perseverance.

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

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

I revealed your name to the people whom you have given me out of the world. They were yours, and you have given them to me. They have kept your word.

As John was fulfilling his course, he said, ‘What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one comes after me, the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to untie.’

If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.

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?

in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

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

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

Here is the perseverance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

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

Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.

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.