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1 Timothy 4:16

New Century Version

Be careful in your life and in your teaching. If you continue to live and teach rightly, you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

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Solomon, you must understand this. The Lord has chosen you to build the Temple as his holy place. Be strong and finish the job.”

Jehoshaphat said to them, “Watch what you do, because you are not judging for people but for the Lord. He will be with you when you make a decision.

“Be sure to do all that I have said to you. You must not even say the names of other gods; those names must not come out of your mouth.

The same thing is true of the words I speak. They will not return to me empty. They make the things happen that I want to happen, and they succeed in doing what I send them to do.

But if they had stood in the meeting of angels, they would have told my message to my people. They would have turned the people from their evil ways and from doing evil.

“You must be careful. People will arrest you and take you to court and beat you in their synagogues. You will be forced to stand before kings and governors, to tell them about me. This will happen to you because you follow me.

“Be careful not to spend your time feasting, drinking, or worrying about worldly things. If you do, that day might come on you suddenly,

But God has helped me, and so I stand here today, telling all people, small and great, what I have seen. But I am saying only what Moses and the prophets said would happen—

Then we can continue to pray and to teach the word of God.”

I hope I can make my own people jealous and, in that way, help some of them to be saved.

Brothers and sisters, I ask you to look out for those who cause people to be against each other and who upset other people’s faith. They are against the true teaching you learned, so stay away from them.

Some people, by always continuing to do good, live for God’s glory, for honor, and for life that has no end. God will give them life forever.

In the wisdom of God the world did not know God through its own wisdom. So God chose to use the message that sounds foolish to save those who believe.

To those who are weak, I became weak so I could win the weak. I have become all things to all people so I could save some of them in any way possible.

I treat my body hard and make it my slave so that I myself will not be disqualified after I have preached to others.

Then we will no longer be babies. We will not be tossed about like a ship that the waves carry one way and then another. We will not be influenced by every new teaching we hear from people who are trying to fool us. They make plans and try any kind of trick to fool people into following the wrong path.

Tell Archippus, “Be sure to finish the work the Lord gave you.”

They try to stop us from teaching those who are not Jews so they may be saved. By doing this, they are increasing their sins to the limit. The anger of God has come to them at last.

I asked you to stay longer in Ephesus when I went into Macedonia so you could command some people there to stop teaching false things.

Continue to do those things; give your life to doing them so your progress may be seen by everyone.

By telling these things to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus. You will be made strong by the words of the faith and the good teaching which you have been following.

So I patiently accept all these troubles so that those whom God has chosen can have the salvation that is in Christ Jesus. With that salvation comes glory that never ends.

But you should continue following the teachings you learned. You know they are true, because you trust those who taught you.

Preach the Good News. Be ready at all times, and tell people what they need to do. Tell them when they are wrong. Encourage them with great patience and careful teaching,

By holding on to the trustworthy word just as we teach it, overseers can help people by using true teaching, and they can show those who are against the true teaching that they are wrong.

Say these things and encourage the people and tell them what is wrong in their lives, with all authority. Do not let anyone treat you as if you were unimportant.

In every way be an example of doing good deeds. When you teach, do it with honesty and seriousness.

I, Paul, am writing this with my own hand. I will pay it back, and I will say nothing about what you owe me for your own life.

Be careful that no one fails to receive God’s grace and begins to cause trouble among you. A person like that can ruin many of you.

Do not let all kinds of strange teachings lead you into the wrong way. Your hearts should be strengthened by God’s grace, not by obeying rules about foods, which do not help those who obey them.

remember this: Anyone who brings a sinner back from the wrong way will save that sinner’s soul from death and will cause many sins to be forgiven.




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