Timothy

I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.

Command and teach these things. — read the full passage →

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

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

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

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

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;

But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, that I also may be cheered up when I know how you are doing. — read the full passage →

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

This instruction I commit to you, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to you, that by them you may wage the good warfare;

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

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

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. — read the full passage →

In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;

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

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

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;

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

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

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has 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 assembly;

It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to Yahweh your God’s voice, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. — read the full passage →

“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. — read the full passage →

“‘You shall not approach 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. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. — read the full passage →

Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness 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 borrow, and don’t pay back, but the righteous give generously.

“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding.

He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in Yahweh’s house, 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 can’t lie, promised before time began;

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

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

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →