Titus 2:6

A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

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

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

I won’t hide my face from them any more; for I have poured out my Spirit on the house of Israel,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

and don’t give place to the devil.

Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

Surely he mocks the mockers, but he gives grace to the humble.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

The Lord said, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,

I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one.

Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

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.

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

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.

When they cast down, you will say, ‘be lifted up.’ He will save the humble person.

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

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.

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.

Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.

but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

His father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying,

All flesh will see God’s salvation.’ ”

Jesus summoned them, saying, “Allow the little children to come to me, and don’t hinder them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.

and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

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

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

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time.”

But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night because of them.

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

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 when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.”

I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.” ’

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

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

whom he poured out on us richly, through Jesus Christ our Savior;

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, “I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.

both young men and maidens; old men and children:

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

“It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.