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1 Timothy 4:6

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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.

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The teachings of the Lord are perfect; they give new strength. The rules of the Lord can be trusted; they make plain people wise.

What I am telling you is good, so do not forget what I teach you.

Your words came to me, and I listened carefully to them. Your words made me very happy, because I am called by your name, Lord God All-Powerful.

Then Jesus said to them, “So every teacher of the law who has been taught about the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house. He brings out both new things and old things he has saved.”

Since I myself have studied everything carefully from the beginning, most excellent Theophilus, it seemed good for me to write it out for you. I arranged it in order,

During this time there was a meeting of the believers (about one hundred twenty of them). Peter stood up and said,

So be careful! Always remember that for three years, day and night, I never stopped warning each of you, and I often cried over you.

I showed you in all things that you should work as I did and help the weak. I taught you to remember the words Jesus said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”

But I have written to you very openly about some things I wanted you to remember. I did this because God gave me this special gift:

That is why I am sending to you Timothy, my son in the Lord. I love Timothy, and he is faithful. He will help you remember my way of life in Christ Jesus, just as I teach it in all the churches everywhere.

Are they serving Christ? I am serving him more. (I am crazy to talk like this.) I have worked much harder than they. I have been in prison more often. I have been hurt more in beatings. I have been near death many times.

He made us able to be servants of a new agreement from himself to his people. This new agreement is not a written law, but it is of the Spirit. The written law brings death, but the Spirit gives life.

But in every way we show we are servants of God: in accepting many hard things, in troubles, in difficulties, and in great problems.

I am sending to you Tychicus, our brother whom we love and a faithful servant of the Lord’s work. He will tell you everything that is happening with me. Then you will know how I am and what I am doing.

I have no one else like Timothy, who truly cares for you.

You know the kind of person Timothy is. You know he has served with me in telling the Good News, as a son serves his father.

But we should continue following the truth we already have.

They do not hold tightly to Christ, the head. It is from him that all the parts of the body are cared for and held together. So it grows in the way God wants it to grow.

Let the teaching of Christ live in you richly. Use all wisdom to teach and instruct each other by singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Tychicus is my dear brother in Christ and a faithful minister and servant with me in the Lord. He will tell you all the things that are happening to me.

and send Timothy to you. Timothy, our brother, works with us for God and helps us tell people the Good News about Christ. We sent him to strengthen and encourage you in your faith

who take part in sexual sins, who have sexual relations with people of the same sex, who sell slaves, who tell lies, who speak falsely, and who do anything against the true teaching of God.

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.

Anyone who has a different teaching does not agree with the true teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that shows the true way to serve God.

This is why I remind you to keep using the gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you. Now let it grow, as a small flame grows into a fire.

But you have followed what I teach, the way I live, my goal, faith, patience, and love. You know I never give up.

because the time will come when people will not listen to the true teaching but will find many more teachers who please them by saying the things they want to hear.

But you must tell everyone what to do to follow the true teaching.

As newborn babies want milk, you should want the pure and simple teaching. By it you can mature in your salvation,

Anyone who goes beyond Christ’s teaching and does not continue to follow only his teaching does not have God. But whoever continues to follow the teaching of Christ has both the Father and the Son.

I want to remind you of some things you already know: Remember that the Lord saved his people by bringing them out of the land of Egypt. But later he destroyed all those who did not believe.




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