1 Timothy 4:16

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Summary

Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.

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2 John 1:9

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Titus 1:9

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James 5:20

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these are the beginning of sorrows. then look to your selves: for they will deliver you up to the tribunals, and scourge you in the synagogues: you will be brought before governours, and princes upon my account, to be my witnesses against them.

set a guard upon yourselves, that ye be not stupified by surfeiting and drunkenness, or by the disquietudes of this life, and so that day come upon you with a surprize.

be therefore upon your guard to secure your selves, and the whole flock over which the holy spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

according to the free gift of God bestowed upon me, I, as a skilful architect, have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon. but let every man take heed how he builds thereupon.

that you read the epistle from Laodicea. give Archippus this instruction from me, take care to discharge the function, you

to preach the word with assiduity upon all occasions: reprove, censure, exhort, with the most tender persuasions.

In all things show yourself a pattern of virtue: in teaching shewing uncorruptness,

take care not to deprive yourselves of the divine favour: and that no poisonous root spring up, and spread a general infection among you.

be upon your guard, that we may not lose the fruit of our labours, but that we may receive our full reward.

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If you represent these things to the brethren, you will appear to be a true minister of Jesus Christ, brought up in the institutions of faith, and the true doctrine to which you were attach'd.

At my departure from Macedonia, I advised you to stay at Ephesus in order to charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine,

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark those who cause divisions and revolts against the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them.

that we should be no longer children, fluctuating, and carried about with every empty doctrine, by men vers'd in sleight and the crafty arts of deceit:

In all things show yourself a pattern of virtue: in teaching shewing uncorruptness,

for the mind is better improv'd by the gospel-dispensation, than by the distinctions about meats, in which some have been so uselesly vers'd.

no renegado that deserts the doctrine of Christ, has any interest in the deity: he that adheres to the doctrine of Christ, has an interest both in the father, and in the son.

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whilst we shall continue our applications to prayer, and to preaching.

but by the divine favour I am still preserv'd alive, testifying to the small and to the great nothing but what Moses and the prophets have predicted should happen: "that Christ should suffer:

who by patient continuance in well doing, seek for glory, honour, and immortality;

But be you attach'd to the doctrine you have learnt, with which you are intrusted, considering by whom you have been instructed:

attach'd to the truth, that has been taught him, that he may be able to teach others sound doctrine, and to convince those who oppose it.

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for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

if I could by any means excite the emulation of my dear countrymen, in order to save some.

to the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that I might save all sorts of men.

who by obstructing our endeavours to save the Gentiles, continue to fill up the measure of their enormities; for which consummate vengeance is falling upon them.

I therefore bear with every thing for the sake of the converts, that they may obtain that salvation, which Jesus Christ has procur'd us, even eternal glory.

I Paul give it under my own hand, I will repay it; not to say, that you owe your very self to me.

that the retrieving of a sinner from his erroneous habits, is saving a soul from ruin, and cancels a multitude of sins.