For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

If you instruct the brothers of these things, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints' feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

I command you in the sight of God, and Christ Jesus, and the chosen angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

In the same way also there are good works that are obvious, and those that are otherwise can't be hidden.

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

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

Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

I command you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to communicate;

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, according to the promise of the life which is in Christ Jesus,

to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

I thank God, whom I serve as my forefathers did, with a pure conscience. How unceasing is my memory of you in my petitions, night and day

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.

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

Therefore don't be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.

That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

You therefore must endure hardship, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my Good News,

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God's word isn't chained.

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

However God's firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness."

If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work.

in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

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

that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

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

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's chosen ones, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;

but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;

to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;

They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

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

not stealing, but showing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

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

But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

that the fellowship of your faith may become effective, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in us in Christ Jesus.

whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

God, having in the past spoken to the fathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways,

Again, when he brings in the firstborn into the world he says, "Let all the angels of God worship him."

But of the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.

You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows."

God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders, by various works of power, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his own will?

But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.

Again, "I will put my trust in him." Again, "Behold, here I am with the children whom God has given me."

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as they also did, but the word they heard didn't profit them, because it wasn't mixed with faith by those who heard.

For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"

Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter therein, and they to whom the good news was before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience,

There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

For every high priest, being taken from among men, is appointed for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

Nobody takes this honor on himself, but he is called by God, just like Aaron was.

named by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek.

For although by this time you should be teachers, you again need to have someone teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God. You have come to need milk, and not solid food.

But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection -- not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God,

This will we do, if God permits.

and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come,

and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.

For the land which has drunk the rain that comes often on it, and brings forth a crop suitable for them for whose sake it is also tilled, receives blessing from God;

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, "See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain."

"For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days," says the Lord; "I will put my laws into their mind, I will also write them on their heart. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

But Christ having come as a high priest of the coming good things, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you."