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1 Timothy 5:6

First Nations Version

But the ones who live only to please themselves are spiritually dead even while they live.

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Your life on this earth has been one of getting for yourselves whatever you want to satisfy your selfish desires. You have fattened yourselves like an animal prepared for a day of slaughter.


As much as she boasted in her rich living, give to her the same in sorrow and suffering. “For this is what she thinks about herself, ‘I rule as a woman chief. I am not like a woman who has lost her husband. I will never know sorrow or grief.’


“Write this to the messenger of the sacred family that gathers in the village of Safe Place (Sardis): These are the words of the one who has the seven spirits of the Great Mystery and the seven stars: I know what you have been doing. I know you have a reputation of being alive. But while others may see you as alive, I see you as dead.


This is my son! He was lost, but I have found him. He was dead to me, but now he is alive!’ Then they all began to feast, sing, and dance.


But it is a good thing for us to celebrate with glad hearts, for your brother was dead but now is alive. He was lost, but now we have found him!’”


This is why it is said, “Wake up, O sleeper, come back from the dead, and the Chosen One will shine on you!”


We all once walked a dark and crooked path that led us to death.


“Not many days later, the younger son took his share and went far away to another land. He began to spend it all on wild living and soon had nothing left.


“Let the ones who are spiritually dead bury their dead,” he said to the man. “You come and walk the road with me.”


You were spiritually dead because your weak human ways had not yet been cut away and because you were still following your bad hearts, walking in your broken ways. Even so the Great Spirit has made you spiritually alive along with the Chosen One by releasing you from all wrongdoings.


raised us up from spiritual death. Even though we were walking the road of death, he made us alive again with the Chosen One. This is what it means to be rescued by the gift of his great kindness.


I will have enough to last me many winters. Then I will take my rest, eat, drink, and celebrate.’


Did you see a man in costly garments? No! The ones who wear costly clothes and buy whatever they want live in grand houses.


“There was once a man with many possessions who always dressed in the best clothes, had more than enough to eat, and lived a life of ease.


Some of these are men who trick their way into people’s families to manipulate vulnerable women who have given themselves over to broken ways to be burdened down with all kinds of evil desires.





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