With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it.
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TSK · 2 Timothy 2:15
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So when they had eaten their breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I have affection for you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."
for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.
Greet Apelles, the approved in Christ. Greet those who are of the household of Aristobulus.
Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ.
But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn't be a servant of Christ.
But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
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.
Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.
Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
Yes, I will make every effort that you may always be able to remember these things even after my departure.