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1 Timothy 5:8

First Nations Version

For all who fail to care for the members of their own family have denied the truth of our spiritual ways and are worse than an outsider who does not trust as we do.

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So then, whenever we are able, we should do good to everyone, and most of all to the members of our sacred family.


I am now ready to come to you for a third time. Once again I will not be a burden to you. I want you, not what you can give to me. For it is the parents who should provide for their children, and not children for their parents.


They represent themselves as those who know the Great Spirit, but the path they walk proves they do not. They show themselves to be disgusting, rebellious, and worthless for any kind of good deed.


“If fathers with bad hearts know how to give good gifts to their children, then how much more will the Great Spirit, who is your loving Father from above, give good gifts to the ones who ask?


Stay clear of people like this, for they make a big show of being spiritual but deny its true power.


I know what you have been doing. Behold! I have opened a way before you that no one can block. Even though your strength is small, you have stayed true to my message and have not turned away from representing me.


I know you live where Accuser (Satan) rules. You have stood strong and true, representing my name in the days when Looks Like His Father (Antipas), my truth teller, was killed in your village where Accuser (Satan) makes his home. Even then you refused to turn your back on me and stayed true to my good road.


But just as there were false prophets among the people of tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel), there will also be false teachers among you. They will sneak into your gatherings and teach things that are harmful to our spiritual ways. They will even deny the Honored One who paid a great price to set them free. In doing so, they will quickly bring ruin down on their own heads.


“If I had not come to them and represented the truth, they would not be guilty of this, but now their guilt remains.


For there are some bad-hearted people who have snuck in among you. They twist the gift of Creator’s great kindness into an excuse to give in to uncontrolled selfish pleasures. In doing so, they deny our only Headman and Honored Chief, Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One. It was written long ago that people like this would come to a bad end.


How can there be any agreement between the Chosen One and the Worthless One (Belial)? What common ground does one who trusts in the Chosen One share with one who does not?


If he still will not listen, take him before the sacred family council. If he will not hear the council, then he will be the same to you as an outsider or a tribal tax collector.


Instead, one sacred family member takes another to be judged by those who know nothing of our spiritual ways.


If we never give up, we will share in his chiefly rule. If we deny him, he will deny us.





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