Philippians 2:20

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

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.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. You have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.

Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

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.

I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

Therefore deal kindly with your servant; for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you; but if there is iniquity in me, kill me yourself; for why should you bring me to your father?”

They both made a covenant before Yahweh. Then David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his house.

Yahweh, truly I am your servant. I am your servant, the son of your servant girl. You have freed me from my chains.

For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.

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.

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.

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.

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

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.

Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; since his life is bound up in the boy’s life;

Jonathan caused David to swear again, for the love that he had to him; for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

that all of you have conspired against me, and there is no one who discloses to me when my son makes a treaty with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you who is sorry for me, or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it is today?”

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of Yahweh’s oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me! Give your strength to your servant. Save the son of your servant.

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.

When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Yes, and if I am poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and rejoice with you all.

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,

But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him.”

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.

As soon as the boy was gone, David arose out of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another, and wept one with another, and David wept the most.

Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have both sworn in Yahweh’s name, saying, ‘Yahweh is between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’ ” He arose and departed; and Jonathan went into the city.

The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of Ahithophel both was like this with David and with Absalom.

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.

I was thrown on you from my mother’s womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

The haters of Yahweh would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.

The words of king Lemuel; the revelation which his mother taught him.

“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

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 departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.

to all who are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, as do Lucius, Jason, and Sosipater, my relatives.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

Therefore let no one despise him. But set him forward on his journey in peace, that he may come to me; for I expect him with the brothers.

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:

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

I had no relief for my spirit, because I didn’t find Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went out into Macedonia.

make my joy full by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

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,

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?

I have no greater joy than this: to hear about my children walking in truth.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”

Ahithophel was the king’s counselor. Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.

But it was you, a man like me, my companion, and my familiar friend.

“Many women do noble things, but you excel them all.”

The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand, and doesn’t care for the sheep.

Now he said this, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, used to steal what was put into it.

But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

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.

and Jesus who is called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for God’s Kingdom who are of the circumcision, men who have been a comfort to me.

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

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

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.