Pastoral Care

`Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the assembly of God that He acquired through His own blood,

who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God;

for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office, — read the full passage →

When, therefore, they dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, `Simon, <FI>son<Fi> of Jonas, dost thou love me more than these?' he saith to him, `Yes, Lord; thou hast known that I dearly love thee;' he saith to him, `Feed my lambs.' — read the full passage →

feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord, — read the full passage →

`Son of man, prophesy concerning shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and thou hast said unto them: To the shepherds, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Woe <FI>to<Fi> the shepherds of Israel, Who have been feeding themselves! The flock do not the shepherds feed? — read the full passage →

even as ye have known, how each one of you, as a father his own children, we are exhorting you, and comforting, and testifying, — read the full passage →

holding--according to the teaching--to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another; — read the full passage →

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee;

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers, — read the full passage →

And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;

for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me; — read the full passage →

and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth <FI>thee<Fi> to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God--a pillar and foundation of the truth,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

Elders who <FI>are<Fi> among you, I exhort, who <FI>am<Fi> a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker, — read the full passage →

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you, — read the full passage →

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

Be obedient to those leading you, and be subject, for these do watch for your souls, as about to give account, that with joy they may do this, and not sighing, for this <FI>is<Fi> unprofitable to you.

Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted; — read the full passage →

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →

Jehovah preserveth thy going out and thy coming in, From henceforth even unto the age!

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness, — read the full passage →

and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I--I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind, — read the full passage →

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

Words of Amos--who hath been among herdsmen of Tekoa--that he hath seen concerning Israel, in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the shaking; — read the full passage →

not because we have not authority, but that ourselves a pattern we might give to you, to imitate us;

for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I--I did beget you;

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

And after these things, the Lord did appoint also other seventy, and sent them by twos before his face, to every city and place whither he himself was about to come, — read the full passage →

`But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;

And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend.

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

For this cause left I thee in Crete, that the things lacking thou mayest arrange, and mayest set down in every city elders, as I did appoint to thee; — read the full passage →

The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching, — read the full passage →

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →

and I have all things, and abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you--an odour of a sweet smell--a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God:

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers, — read the full passage →

therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith.

and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. — read the full passage →

so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: of the good news to live.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

in the diligence not slothful; in the spirit fervent; the Lord serving;

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and may glorify your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens.

For I have known the thoughts that I am thinking towards you--an affirmation of Jehovah; thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give to you posterity and hope.

we--we love him, because He--He first loved us;

feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind, — read the full passage →

Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith--considering the issue of the behaviour--be imitating,

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate--

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding;

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

always in my prayers beseeching, if by any means now at length I shall have a prosperous journey, by the will of God, to come unto you,

And in these days, the disciples multiplying, there came a murmuring of the Hellenists at the Hebrews, because their widows were being overlooked in the daily ministration, — read the full passage →

and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers.

And there was a certain one ailing, Lazarus, from Bethany, of the village of Mary and Martha her sister-- — read the full passage →

By David. Do not fret because of evil doers, Be not envious against doers of iniquity, — read the full passage →

To a despiser of his friends <FI>is<Fi> shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.

`And this <FI>is<Fi> the command, the statutes and the judgments which Jehovah your God hath commanded to teach you, to do in the land which ye are passing over thither to possess it, — read the full passage →

if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;

And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle <FI>you<Fi> ;

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate-- — read the full passage →

and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise--to salvation, through faith that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus;

always learning, and never to a knowledge of truth able to come,

sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, `The Lord hath known those who are His,' and `Let him depart from unrighteousness--every one who is naming the name of Christ.'

The well-leading elders of double honour let them be counted worthy, especially those labouring in word and teaching,

(and if any one his own house <FI>how<Fi> to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

his own house leading well, having children in subjection with all gravity, — read the full passage →

in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,

for what <FI>is<Fi> our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye before our Lord Jesus Christ in his presence?

But we became gentle in your midst, as a nurse may cherish her own children,

for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, — read the full passage →

from whom the whole body, being fitly joined together and united, through the supply of every joint, according to the working in the measure of each single part, the increase of the body doth make for the building up of itself in love.

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers, — read the full passage →

and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers, — read the full passage →

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;

And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful: — read the full passage →

no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.