Titus 3:2

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

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.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,

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

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

Don’t be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

“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?

For I have given you an example, that you should also do as I have done to you.

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.

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;

But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

If anyone among you thinks himself to be religious while he doesn’t bridle his tongue, but deceives his heart, this man’s religion is worthless.

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

“Awake, sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is close to me,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered; and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

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,

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

The Lord’s servant must not quarrel, but be gentle toward all, able to teach, patient,

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;

and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Therefore, putting away all filthiness and overflowing of wickedness, receive with humility the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he shall ask, and God will give him life for those who sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death. I don’t say that he should make a request concerning this.

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

“Thus has Yahweh of Armies spoken, saying, ‘Execute true judgment, and show kindness and compassion every man to his brother.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,

but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

but he will judge the poor with righteousness, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips he will kill the wicked.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks be made for all men:

Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, and faithful in all things.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

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

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your gentleness has made me great.

he who doesn’t slander with his tongue, nor does evil to his friend, nor casts slurs against his fellow man;

An evil speaker won’t be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

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.

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

Paul said, “I didn’t know, brothers, that he was high priest. For it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’ ”

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

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

See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

Servants, be in subjection to your masters with all respect: not only to the good and gentle, but also to the wicked.

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.