Study Desk

That is why we always pray for you. We ask our God to make you worthy of the life he has called you to live. May he fulfill by his power all your desire for goodness and complete your work of faith.

We must thank God at all times for you, friends, you whom the Lord loves. For God chose you as the first to be saved by the Spirit's power to make you his holy people and by your faith in the truth.

To Timothy, my true son in the faith: May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord give you grace, mercy, and peace.

Tell them to give up those legends and those long lists of ancestors, which only produce arguments; they do not serve God's plan, which is known by faith.

The purpose of this order is to arouse the love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a genuine faith.

even though in the past I spoke evil of him and persecuted and insulted him. But God was merciful to me because I did not yet have faith and so did not know what I was doing.

And our Lord poured out his abundant grace on me and gave me the faith and love which are ours in union with Christ Jesus.

and keep your faith and a clear conscience. Some people have not listened to their conscience and have made a ruin of their faith.

and that is why I was sent as an apostle and teacher of the Gentiles, to proclaim the message of faith and truth. I am not lying; I am telling the truth!

But a woman will be saved through having children, if she perseveres in faith and love and holiness, with modesty.

He must be mature in the faith, so that he will not swell up with pride and be condemned, as the Devil was.

they should hold to the revealed truth of the faith with a clear conscience.

Those helpers who do their work well win for themselves a good standing and are able to speak boldly about their faith in Christ Jesus.

The Spirit says clearly that some people will abandon the faith in later times; they will obey lying spirits and follow the teachings of demons.

If you give these instructions to the believers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, as you feed yourself spiritually on the words of faith and of the true teaching which you have followed.

Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but be an example for the believers in your speech, your conduct, your love, faith, and purity.

But if any do not take care of their relatives, especially the members of their own family, they have denied the faith and are worse than an unbeliever.

For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil. Some have been so eager to have it that they have wandered away from the faith and have broken their hearts with many sorrows.

But you, man of God, avoid all these things. Strive for righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness.

Run your best in the race of faith, and win eternal life for yourself; for it was to this life that God called you when you firmly professed your faith before many witnesses.