1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according t...
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1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love the...
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11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
14 Who gave himself for us, that h...
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10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
12 One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, the Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
13 This...
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1 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and ha...
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“What is faith?” asked the Sunday school teacher. A young boy answered in a flash, “Believing something you know isn’t true.” There are many people who feel this way. They believe that Christianity is a collection of myths or fairy tales with no rational basis.
Christianity is true and rational. It can be successfully defended. The case...
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I believe in the devil! Many people don’t. They think that belief in a personal devil is a part of mankind’s nursery furniture. They put him in the same category as Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. They relegate him to the superstition and ignorance of the Middle Ages.
Granted, the truth about Satan has been greatly distorted by the false notions of the...
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For more than 20 years as a minister, I have been trying to help people with troubles. Very often they are in trouble simply because they don’t know how to handle temptation.
Temptation is universal and as old as the Garden of Eden. Much of your happiness depends on your ability to handle it instead of letting it handle you. Here are four rules that will help y...
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There are three places we can live—in the past, in the present, or in the future.
Some people live in the past. They are always looking back. Their lives are so weighted down by mistakes, failures, regrets, and sins of the past that they don’t enjoy the present.
Others live in the future. They either spend so much time dreaming of the future or dreading...
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