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1 Timothy 4:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

If you teach these things to other followers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus. You will show that you have grown up on the teachings about our faith and on the good instructions you have obeyed.

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The Law of the LORD is perfect; it gives us new life. His teachings last for ever, and they give wisdom to ordinary people.

My advice is useful, so don't turn away.

When you spoke to me, I was glad to obey, because I belong to you, the LORD All-Powerful.

So he told them, “Every student of the Scriptures who becomes a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like someone who brings out new and old treasures from the storeroom.”

So I made a careful study of everything and then decided to write and tell you exactly what took place. Honourable Theophilus,

One day there were about a hundred and twenty of the Lord's followers meeting together, and Peter stood up to speak to them.

Be on your guard! Remember how day and night for three years I kept warning you with tears in my eyes.

By everything I did, I showed how you should work to help everyone who is weak. Remember that our Lord Jesus said, “More blessings come from giving than from receiving.”

But I have spoken to you plainly and have tried to remind you of some things. God was so kind to me!

That's why I sent Timothy to you. I love him like a son, and he is a faithful servant of the Lord. Timothy will tell you what I do to follow Christ and how it agrees with what I always teach about Christ in every church.

Are they servants of Christ? I am a fool to talk this way, but I serve him better than they do. I have worked harder and have been put in jail more times. I have been beaten with whips more and have been in danger of death more often.

He makes us worthy to be the servants of his new agreement that comes from the Holy Spirit and not from a written Law. After all, the Law brings death, but the Spirit brings life.

But in everything and in every way we show that we truly are God's servants. We have always been patient, though we have had a lot of trouble, suffering, and hard times.

I want you to know how I am getting along and what I am doing. That's why I am sending Tychicus to you. He is a dear friend, as well as a faithful servant of the Lord. He will tell you how I am doing, and he will cheer you up.

I don't have anyone else who cares about you as much as he does.

But you know what kind of person Timothy is. He has worked with me like a son in spreading the good news.

But we must keep going in the direction that we are now headed.

They are no longer part of Christ, who is the head of the whole body. Christ gives the body its strength, and he uses its joints and muscles to hold it together, as it grows by the power of God.

Let the message about Christ completely fill your lives, while you use all your wisdom to teach and instruct each other. With thankful hearts, sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs to God.

Tychicus is the dear friend, who faithfully works and serves the Lord with us, and he will give you the news about me.

and send our friend Timothy to you. He works with us as God's servant and preaches the good news about Christ. We wanted him to make you strong in your faith and to encourage you.

The Law was written for people who are sexual perverts or who live as homosexuals or are kidnappers or liars or won't tell the truth in court. It is for anything else that opposes the correct teaching

Be careful about the way you live and about what you teach. Keep on doing this, and you will save not only yourself, but the people who hear you.

Anyone who teaches something different disagrees with the correct and godly teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So I ask you to make full use of the gift that God gave you when I placed my hands on you. Use it well.

Timothy, you know what I teach and how I live. You know what I want to do and what I believe. You have seen how patient and loving I am, and how in the past I put up with

The time is coming when people won't listen to good teaching. Instead, they will look for teachers who will please them by telling them only what they are itching to hear.

Titus, you must teach only what is correct.

Be like newborn babies who are thirsty for the pure spiritual milk that will help you grow and be saved.

Don't keep changing what you were taught about Christ, or else God will no longer be with you. But if you hold firmly to what you were taught, both the Father and the Son will be with you.

Don't forget what happened to those people that the Lord rescued from Egypt. Some of them did not have faith, and he later destroyed them.




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