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Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;

to which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for you. As for our brothers, they are the apostles of the assemblies, the glory of Christ.

So let a man think of us as Christ’s servants, and stewards of God’s mysteries.

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

As each has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good managers of the grace of God in its various forms.

Pray for us, for we are persuaded that we have a good conscience, desiring to live honorably in all things.

Then he said to them, “The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest.

Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. — read the full passage →

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.

He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

But Jesus summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. — read the full passage →

But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.

of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”

“To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: “He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lamp stands says these things:

Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear. — read the full passage →

which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you. Amen.

holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith;

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;

Tell Archippus, “Take heed to the ministry which you have received in the Lord, that you fulfill it.”

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;

For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.

For though I should boast somewhat abundantly concerning our authority, (which the Lord gave for building you up, and not for casting you down) I will not be disappointed,

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation; — read the full passage →

For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake;

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am clean from the blood of all men,

As they served the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Separate Barnabas and Saul for me, for the work to which I have called them.”

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. — read the full passage →

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

Behold, I send out the promise of my Father on you. But wait in the city of Jerusalem until you are clothed with power from on high.”

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”

I raised up some of your sons for prophets, and some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn’t this true, you children of Israel?” says Yahweh.

Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”

Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning from me. — read the full passage →

I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, says Yahweh.

I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

“You therefore put your belt on your waist, arise, and speak to them all that I command you. Don’t be dismayed at them, lest I dismay you before them. — read the full passage →

Don’t be afraid because of them; for I am with you to deliver you,” says Yahweh.

But Yahweh said to me, “Don’t say, ‘I am a child;’ for to whoever I shall send you, you shall go, and whatever I shall command you, you shall speak.

I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean thing! Go out of the midst of her! Cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh.

Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

My sons, don’t be negligent now; for Yahweh has chosen you to stand before him, to minister to him, and that you should be his ministers, and burn incense.”

“Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.

Balaam said to Balak, “Didn’t I also tell your messengers who you sent to me, saying, — read the full passage →

He answered and said, “Must I not take heed to speak that which Yahweh puts in my mouth?”

How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?

Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come to you. Have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak.”

Balaam answered the servants of Balak, “If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can’t go beyond the word of Yahweh my God, to do less or more.

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

in all things showing yourself an example of good works; in your teaching showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,

and those words will consume like gangrene, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of the knowledge which is falsely so called;

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate yourwoman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. — read the full passage →

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,

Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

“Rejoice over her, O heaven, you saints, apostles, and prophets; for God has judged your judgment on her.”

One of the elders said to me, “Don’t weep. Behold, the Lion who is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome; he who opens the book and its seven seals.”

And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look in it.

“To the angel of the assembly in Thyatira write: “The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like burnished brass, says these things:

So you also have some who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans likewise.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

“To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: “He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lamp stands. The seven stars are the angelsof the seven assemblies. The seven lamp stands are seven assemblies.

Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings. — read the full passage →

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.

I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.

because for the sake of the Name they went out, taking nothing from the Gentiles.

I have no greater joy than this, to hear about my children walking in truth.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who don’t confess that Jesus Christ came in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the Antichrist. — read the full passage →

They are of the world. Therefore they speak of the world, and the world hears them.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. — read the full passage →

These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray.

Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;

and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;