Timothy

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith:

These things command and teach. — read the full passage →

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

Let a woman learn in quietness with all subjection. — read the full passage →

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness:

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.

I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.

This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to thee, that by them thou mayest war the good warfare;

Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Saviour, and Christ Jesus our hope;

For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;

I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

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

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

And he came also to Derbe and to Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess that believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church;

And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth: — read the full passage →

And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. — read the full passage →

And thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness. — read the full passage →

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

let the women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as also saith the law.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers: for there is no power but of God; and the powers that be are ordained of God. — read the full passage →

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. — read the full passage →

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. — read the full passage →

The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again; But the righteous dealeth graciously, and giveth.

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.

And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;

Every scripture inspired of God is also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness: — read the full passage →

to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,

There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for ye all are one man in Christ Jesus.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →