Titus 2:9

You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

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

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

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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.

“Honor your father and your mother, as Yahweh your God commanded you; that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

The king said, “What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because Yahweh has said to him, ‘Curse David;’ who then shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’ ”

We have obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, in all that he commanded us, to drink no wine all our days, we, our wives, our sons, or our daughters;

But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

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

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

Servants, obey in all things those who are your masters according to the flesh, not just when they are looking, as men pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing God.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.

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

In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing.

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness?’

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

“What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this pleases the Lord.

Fathers, don’t provoke your children, so that they won’t be discouraged.

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

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

I command you in the sight of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

The deep’s fountains and the sky’s windows were also stopped, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

Yahweh’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”

and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Paddan Aram.

She said to her, “All that you say, I will do.”

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.

But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it? For you must choose, and not I. Therefore speak what you know.

I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”

Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

Your laws remain to this day, for all things serve you.

When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples.

Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”

“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’

For I am also a man under authority, having under myself soldiers. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and tell another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and tell my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you didn’t sow, and gathering where you didn’t scatter.

He sent two of his disciples, and said to them, “Go into the city, and there you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him,

He stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her. Immediately she rose up and served them.

You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ”

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

Therefore you are without excuse, O man, whoever you are who judge. For in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself. For you who judge practice the same things.

Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.

Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

Servants, be obedient to those who according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to Christ,

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

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

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

(but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

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.

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

But do you want to know, vain man, that faith apart from works is dead?