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1 Timothy 4:16

Good News Translation

Watch yourself and watch your teaching. Keep on doing these things, because if you do, you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

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You must realize that the Lord has chosen you to build his holy Temple. Now do it—and do it with determination.”

and instructed them: “Be careful in pronouncing judgment; you are not acting on human authority, but on the authority of the Lord, and he is with you when you pass sentence.

“Listen to everything that I, the Lord, have said to you. Do not pray to other gods; do not even mention their names.

So also will be the word that I speak— it will not fail to do what I plan for it; it will do everything I send it to do.

If they had known my secret thoughts, then they could have proclaimed my message to my people and could have made them give up the evil lives they live and the wicked things they do.

“You yourselves must watch out. You will be arrested and taken to court. You will be beaten in the synagogues; you will stand before rulers and kings for my sake to tell them the Good News.

“Be careful not to let yourselves become occupied with too much feasting and drinking and with the worries of this life, or that Day may suddenly catch you

But to this very day I have been helped by God, and so I stand here giving my witness to all, to small and great alike. What I say is the very same thing which the prophets and Moses said was going to happen:

We ourselves, then, will give our full time to prayer and the work of preaching.”

Perhaps I can make the people of my own race jealous, and so be able to save some of them.

I urge you, my friends: watch out for those who cause divisions and upset people's faith and go against the teaching which you have received. Keep away from them!

Some people keep on doing good, and seek glory, honor, and immortal life; to them God will give eternal life.

For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom. Instead, by means of the so-called “foolish” message we preach, God decided to save those who believe.

Among the weak in faith I become weak like one of them, in order to win them. So I become all things to all people, that I may save some of them by whatever means are possible.

I harden my body with blows and bring it under complete control, to keep myself from being disqualified after having called others to the contest.

Then we shall no longer be children, carried by the waves and blown about by every shifting wind of the teaching of deceitful people, who lead others into error by the tricks they invent.

And tell Archippus, “Be sure to finish the task you were given in the Lord's service.”

They even tried to stop us from preaching to the Gentiles the message that would bring them salvation. In this way they have brought to completion all the sins they have always committed. And now God's anger has at last come down on them!

I want you to stay in Ephesus, just as I urged you when I was on my way to Macedonia. Some people there are teaching false doctrines, and you must order them to stop.

Practice these things and devote yourself to them, in order that your progress may be seen by all.

If you give these instructions to the believers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, as you feed yourself spiritually on the words of faith and of the true teaching which you have followed.

and so I endure everything for the sake of God's chosen people, in order that they too may obtain the salvation that comes through Christ Jesus and brings eternal glory.

But as for you, continue in the truths that you were taught and firmly believe. You know who your teachers were,

to preach the message, to insist upon proclaiming it (whether the time is right or not), to convince, reproach, and encourage, as you teach with all patience.

He must hold firmly to the message which can be trusted and which agrees with the doctrine. In this way he will be able to encourage others with the true teaching and also to show the error of those who are opposed to it.

Teach these things and use your full authority as you encourage and rebuke your hearers. Let none of them look down on you.

In all things you yourself must be an example of good behavior. Be sincere and serious in your teaching.

Here, I will write this with my own hand: I, Paul, will pay you back. (I should not have to remind you, of course, that you owe your very self to me.)

Guard against turning back from the grace of God. Let no one become like a bitter plant that grows up and causes many troubles with its poison.

Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you from the right way. It is good to receive inner strength from God's grace, and not by obeying rules about foods; those who obey these rules have not been helped by them.

remember this: whoever turns a sinner back from the wrong way will save that sinner's soul from death and bring about the forgiveness of many sins.




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