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Discipleship Christ's Lessons Disciple Lessons WEB - World English Bible
But Jesus would not let him. Instead, he told him, "Go back home to your family and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how kind he has been to you."
(Mar 5:19 GNB)
Jesus said to them, "Prophets are respected everywhere except in their own hometown and by their relatives and their family."
(Mar 6:4 GNB)
If you are ashamed of me and of my teaching in this godless and wicked day, then the Son of Man will be ashamed of you when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."
(Mar 8:38 GNB)
And Jesus told them this parable: "One blind man cannot lead another one; if he does, both will fall into a ditch.
(Luk 6:39 GNB)
No pupils are greater than their teacher; but all pupils, when they have completed their training, will be like their teacher.
(Luk 6:40 GNB)
How can you say to your brother, 'Please, brother, let me take that speck out of your eye,' yet cannot even see the log in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will be able to see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
(Luk 6:42 GNB)
"Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but pay no attention to the log in your own eye?
(Luk 6:41 GNB)
When the officer heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to ask him to come and heal his servant.
(Luk 7:3 GNB)
They came to Jesus and begged him earnestly, "This man really deserves your help.
(Luk 7:4 GNB)
He loves our people and he himself built a synagogue for us."
(Luk 7:5 GNB)
Why, then, do you look at the speck in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the log in your own eye?
(Mat 7:3 GNB)
How dare you say to your brother, 'Please, let me take that speck out of your eye,' when you have a log in your own eye?
(Mat 7:4 GNB)
You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will be able to see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
(Mat 7:5 GNB)
"Do not give what is holy to dogs---they will only turn and attack you. Do not throw your pearls in front of pigs---they will only trample them underfoot.
(Mat 7:6 GNB)
Go! I am sending you like lambs among wolves.
(Luk 10:3 GNB)
Don't take a purse or a beggar's bag or shoes; don't stop to greet anyone on the road.
(Luk 10:4 GNB)
Whenever you go into a house, first say, 'Peace be with this house.'
(Luk 10:5 GNB)
If someone who is peace-loving lives there, let your greeting of peace remain on that person; if not, take back your greeting of peace.
(Luk 10:6 GNB)
Stay in that same house, eating and drinking whatever they offer you, for workers should be given their pay. Don't move around from one house to another.
(Luk 10:7 GNB)
Whenever you go into a town and are made welcome, eat what is set before you,
(Luk 10:8 GNB)
heal the sick in that town, and say to the people there, 'The Kingdom of God has come near you.'
(Luk 10:9 GNB)
But whenever you go into a town and are not welcomed, go out in the streets and say,
(Luk 10:10 GNB)
'Even the dust from your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. But remember that the Kingdom of God has come near you!'
(Luk 10:11 GNB)
And as for you, Capernaum! Did you want to lift yourself up to heaven? You will be thrown down to hell!"
(Luk 10:15 GNB)
Jesus said to his disciples, "Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me."
(Luk 10:16 GNB)
Finally, build up your strength in union with the Lord and by means of his mighty power.
(Ephesians 6:10 GNB)
Put on all the armor that God gives you, so that you will be able to stand up against the Devil's evil tricks.
(Ephesians 6:11 GNB)
For we are not fighting against human beings but against the wicked spiritual forces in the heavenly world, the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark age.
(Ephesians 6:12 GNB)
So put on God's armor now! Then when the evil day comes, you will be able to resist the enemy's attacks; and after fighting to the end, you will still hold your ground.
(Ephesians 6:13 GNB)
So stand ready, with truth as a belt tight around your waist, with righteousness as your breastplate,
(Ephesians 6:14 GNB)
and as your shoes the readiness to announce the Good News of peace.
(Ephesians 6:15 GNB)
At all times carry faith as a shield; for with it you will be able to put out all the burning arrows shot by the Evil One.
(Ephesians 6:16 GNB)
And accept salvation as a helmet, and the word of God as the sword which the Spirit gives you.
(Ephesians 6:17 GNB)
Do all this in prayer, asking for God's help. Pray on every occasion, as the Spirit leads. For this reason keep alert and never give up; pray always for all God's people.
(Ephesians 6:18 GNB)
And now I want to remind you, my friends, of the Good News which I preached to you, which you received, and on which your faith stands firm.
(1 Corinthians 15:1 GNB)
That is the gospel, the message that I preached to you. You are saved by the gospel if you hold firmly to it---unless it was for nothing that you believed.
(1 Corinthians 15:2 GNB)
I passed on to you what I received, which is of the greatest importance: that Christ died for our sins, as written in the Scriptures;
(1 Corinthians 15:3 GNB)
that he was buried and that he was raised to life three days later, as written in the Scriptures;
(1 Corinthians 15:4 GNB)
that he appeared to Peter and then to all twelve apostles.
(1 Corinthians 15:5 GNB)
Christ did not send me to baptize. He sent me to tell the Good News, and to tell it without using the language of human wisdom, in order to make sure that Christ's death on the cross is not robbed of its power.
(1 Corinthians 1:17 GNB)
For the message about Christ's death on the cross is nonsense to those who are being lost; but for us who are being saved it is God's power.
(1 Corinthians 1:18 GNB)
But how can they call to him for help if they have not believed? And how can they believe if they have not heard the message? And how can they hear if the message is not proclaimed?
(Romans 10:14 GNB)
And how can the message be proclaimed if the messengers are not sent out? As the scripture says, "How wonderful is the coming of messengers who bring good news!"
(Romans 10:15 GNB)
But not all have accepted the Good News. Isaiah himself said, "Lord, who believed our message?"
(Romans 10:16 GNB)
So then, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message comes through preaching Christ.
(Romans 10:17 GNB)
But I ask: Is it true that they did not hear the message? Of course they did---for as the scripture says: "The sound of their voice went out to all the world; their words reached the ends of the earth."
(Romans 10:18 GNB)
What we have seen and heard we announce to you also, so that you will join with us in the fellowship that we have with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
(1 John 1:3 GNB)
We write this in order that our joy may be complete.
(1 John 1:4 GNB)
Now the message that we have heard from his Son and announce is this: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in him.
(1 John 1:5 GNB)
If, then, we say that we have fellowship with him, yet at the same time live in the darkness, we are lying both in our words and in our actions.
(1 John 1:6 GNB)
But if we live in the light---just as he is in the light---then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from every sin.
(1 John 1:7 GNB)
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.
(1 John 1:8 GNB)
But if we confess our sins to God, he will keep his promise and do what is right: he will forgive us our sins and purify us from all our wrongdoing.
(1 John 1:9 GNB)
If we say that we have not sinned, we make a liar out of God, and his word is not in us.
(1 John 1:10 GNB)
My dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful test you are suffering, as though something unusual were happening to you.
(1 Peter 4:12 GNB)
Rather be glad that you are sharing Christ's sufferings, so that you may be full of joy when his glory is revealed.
(1 Peter 4:13 GNB)
But thanks be to God! For in union with Christ we are always led by God as prisoners in Christ's victory procession. God uses us to make the knowledge about Christ spread everywhere like a sweet fragrance.
(2 Corinthians 2:14 GNB)
For we are like a sweet-smelling incense offered by Christ to God, which spreads among those who are being saved and those who are being lost.
(2 Corinthians 2:15 GNB)
For those who are being lost, it is a deadly stench that kills; but for those who are being saved, it is a fragrance that brings life. Who, then, is capable for such a task?
(2 Corinthians 2:16 GNB)
We are not like so many others, who handle God's message as if it were cheap merchandise; but because God has sent us, we speak with sincerity in his presence, as servants of Christ.
(2 Corinthians 2:17 GNB)
But you must keep control of yourself in all circumstances; endure suffering, do the work of a preacher of the Good News, and perform your whole duty as a servant of God.
(2 Timothy 4:5 GNB)
Remember this, my dear friends! Everyone must be quick to listen, but slow to speak and slow to become angry.
(James 1:19 GNB)
Human anger does not achieve God's righteous purpose.
(James 1:20 GNB)
So get rid of every filthy habit and all wicked conduct. Submit to God and accept the word that he plants in your hearts, which is able to save you.
(James 1:21 GNB)
Do not deceive yourselves by just listening to his word; instead, put it into practice.
(James 1:22 GNB)
If you listen to the word, but do not put it into practice you are like people who look in a mirror and see themselves as they are.
(James 1:23 GNB)
They take a good look at themselves and then go away and at once forget what they look like.
(James 1:24 GNB)
But if you look closely into the perfect law that sets people free, and keep on paying attention to it and do not simply listen and then forget it, but put it into practice---you will be blessed by God in what you do.
(James 1:25 GNB)
Do any of you think you are religious? If you do not control your tongue, your religion is worthless and you deceive yourself.
(James 1:26 GNB)
What God the Father considers to be pure and genuine religion is this: to take care of orphans and widows in their suffering and to keep oneself from being corrupted by the world.
(James 1:27 GNB)
If we obey God's commands, then we are sure that we know him.
(1 John 2:3 GNB)
If we say that we know him, but do not obey his commands, we are liars and there is no truth in us.
(1 John 2:4 GNB)
But if we obey his word, we are the ones whose love for God has really been made perfect. This is how we can be sure that we are in union with God:
(1 John 2:5 GNB)
if we say that we remain in union with God, we should live just as Jesus Christ did.
(1 John 2:6 GNB)
For two years Paul lived in a place he rented for himself, and there he welcomed all who came to see him.
(Acts 28:30 GNB)
He preached about the Kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ, speaking with all boldness and freedom.
(Acts 28:31 GNB)
You should each judge your own conduct. If it is good, then you can be proud of what you yourself have done, without having to compare it with what someone else has done.
(Galatians 6:4 GNB)
For each of you have to carry your own load.
(Galatians 6:5 GNB)
If you are being taught the Christian message, you should share all the good things you have with your teacher.
(Galatians 6:6 GNB)
Do not deceive yourselves; no one makes a fool of God. You will reap exactly what you plant.
(Galatians 6:7 GNB)
If you plant in the field of your natural desires, from it you will gather the harvest of death; if you plant in the field of the Spirit, from the Spirit you will gather the harvest of eternal life.
(Galatians 6:8 GNB)
Now, the important thing is that your way of life should be as the gospel of Christ requires, so that, whether or not I am able to go and see you, I will hear that you are standing firm with one common purpose and that with only one desire you are fighting together for the faith of the gospel.
(Philippians 1:27 GNB)
Don't be afraid of your enemies; always be courageous, and this will prove to them that they will lose and that you will win, because it is God who gives you the victory.
(Philippians 1:28 GNB)
For you have been given the privilege of serving Christ, not only by believing in him, but also by suffering for him.
(Philippians 1:29 GNB)
Now you can take part with me in the battle. It is the same battle you saw me fighting in the past, and as you hear, the one I am fighting still.
(Philippians 1:30 GNB)
God in his mercy has given us this work to do, and so we do not become discouraged.
(2 Corinthians 4:1 GNB)
We put aside all secret and shameful deeds; we do not act with deceit, nor do we falsify the word of God. In the full light of truth we live in God's sight and try to commend ourselves to everyone's good conscience.
(2 Corinthians 4:2 GNB)
For if the gospel we preach is hidden, it is hidden only from those who are being lost.
(2 Corinthians 4:3 GNB)
When the true message, the Good News, first came to you, you heard about the hope it offers. So your faith and love are based on what you hope for, which is kept safe for you in heaven.
(Colossians 1:5 GNB)
The gospel keeps bringing blessings and is spreading throughout the world, just as it has among you ever since the day you first heard about the grace of God and came to know it as it really is.
(Colossians 1:6 GNB)
You learned of God's grace from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is Christ's faithful worker on our behalf.
(Colossians 1:7 GNB)
He has told us of the love that the Spirit has given you.
(Colossians 1:8 GNB)
For this reason we have always prayed for you, ever since we heard about you. We ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will, with all the wisdom and understanding that his Spirit gives.
(Colossians 1:9 GNB)
You must, of course, continue faithful on a firm and sure foundation, and must not allow yourselves to be shaken from the hope you gained when you heard the gospel. It is of this gospel that I, Paul, became a servant---this gospel which has been preached to everybody in the world.
(Colossians 1:23 GNB)
And now I am happy about my sufferings for you, for by means of my physical sufferings I am helping to complete what still remains of Christ's sufferings on behalf of his body, the church.
(Colossians 1:24 GNB)
Finally, we could not bear it any longer. So we decided to stay on alone in Athens
(1 Thessalonians 3:1 GNB)
while we sent Timothy, our brother who works with us for God in preaching the Good News about Christ. We sent him to strengthen you and help your faith,
(1 Thessalonians 3:2 GNB)
so that none of you should turn back because of these persecutions. You yourselves know that such persecutions are part of God's will for us.
(1 Thessalonians 3:3 GNB)
For while we were still with you, we told you ahead of time that we were going to be persecuted; and as you well know, that is exactly what happened.
(1 Thessalonians 3:4 GNB)
That is why I had to send Timothy. I could not bear it any longer, so I sent him to find out about your faith. Surely it could not be that the Devil had tempted you and all our work had been for nothing!
(1 Thessalonians 3:5 GNB)
Now Timothy has come back, and he has brought us the welcome news about your faith and love. He has told us that you always think well of us and that you want to see us just as much as we want to see you.
(1 Thessalonians 3:6 GNB)
So, in all our trouble and suffering we have been encouraged about you, friends. It was your faith that encouraged us,
(1 Thessalonians 3:7 GNB)
because now we really live if you stand firm in your life in union with the Lord.
(1 Thessalonians 3:8 GNB)
Now we can give thanks to our God for you. We thank him for the joy we have in his presence because of you.
(1 Thessalonians 3:9 GNB)
And you also became God's people when you heard the true message, the Good News that brought you salvation. You believed in Christ, and God put his stamp of ownership on you by giving you the Holy Spirit he had promised.
(Ephesians 1:13 GNB)
The Spirit is the guarantee that we shall receive what God has promised his people, and this assures us that God will give complete freedom to those who are his. Let us praise his glory!
(Ephesians 1:14 GNB)
For this reason, ever since I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all of God's people,
(Ephesians 1:15 GNB)
I have not stopped giving thanks to God for you. I remember you in my prayers
(Ephesians 1:16 GNB)
and ask the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to give you the Spirit, who will make you wise and reveal God to you, so that you will know him.
(Ephesians 1:17 GNB)
I ask that your minds may be opened to see his light, so that you will know what is the hope to which he has called you, how rich are the wonderful blessings he promises his people,
(Ephesians 1:18 GNB)
and how very great is his power at work in us who believe. This power working in us is the same as the mighty strength
(Ephesians 1:19 GNB)
which he used when he raised Christ from death and seated him at his right side in the heavenly world.
(Ephesians 1:20 GNB)
Christ rules there above all heavenly rulers, authorities, powers, and lords; he has a title superior to all titles of authority in this world and in the next.
(Ephesians 1:21 GNB)
God put all things under Christ's feet and gave him to the church as supreme Lord over all things.
(Ephesians 1:22 GNB)
The church is Christ's body, the completion of him who himself completes all things everywhere.
(Ephesians 1:23 GNB)
want you to know, my friends, that the things that have happened to me have really helped the progress of the gospel.
(Philippians 1:12 GNB)
As a result, the whole palace guard and all the others here know that I am in prison because I am a servant of Christ.
(Philippians 1:13 GNB)
And my being in prison has given most of the believers more confidence in the Lord, so that they grow bolder all the time to preach the message fearlessly.
(Philippians 1:14 GNB)
Of course some of them preach Christ because they are jealous and quarrelsome, but others from genuine good will.
(Philippians 1:15 GNB)
These do so from love, because they know that God has given me the work of defending the gospel.
(Philippians 1:16 GNB)
The others do not proclaim Christ sincerely, but from a spirit of selfish ambition; they think that they will make more trouble for me while I am in prison.
(Philippians 1:17 GNB)
My ambition has always been to proclaim the Good News in places where Christ has not been heard of, so as not to build on a foundation laid by someone else.
(Romans 15:20 GNB)
As the scripture says, "Those who were not told about him will see, and those who have not heard will understand."
(Romans 15:21 GNB)
Let us give glory to God! He is able to make you stand firm in your faith, according to the Good News I preach about Jesus Christ and according to the revelation of the secret truth which was hidden for long ages in the past.
(Romans 16:25 GNB)
Now, however, that truth has been brought out into the open through the writings of the prophets; and by the command of the eternal God it is made known to all nations, so that all may believe and obey.
(Romans 16:26 GNB)
To the only God, who alone is all-wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever! Amen.
(Romans 16:27 GNB)
When I arrived in Troas to preach the Good News about Christ, I found that the Lord had opened the way for the work there.
(2 Corinthians 2:12 GNB)
But I was deeply worried, because I could not find our brother Titus. So I said good-bye to the people there and went on to Macedonia .
(2 Corinthians 2:13 GNB)
But thanks be to God! For in union with Christ we are always led by God as prisoners in Christ's victory procession. God uses us to make the knowledge about Christ spread everywhere like a sweet fragrance.
(2 Corinthians 2:14 GNB)
For we are like a sweet-smelling incense offered by Christ to God, which spreads among those who are being saved and those who are being lost.
(2 Corinthians 2:15 GNB)
For those who are being lost, it is a deadly stench that kills; but for those who are being saved, it is a fragrance that brings life. Who, then, is capable for such a task?
(2 Corinthians 2:16 GNB)
For even if you have ten thousand guardians in your Christian life, you have only one father. For in your life in union with Christ Jesus I have become your father by bringing the Good News to you.
(1 Corinthians 4:15 GNB)
I beg you, then, to follow my example.
(1 Corinthians 4:16 GNB)
He will always make you rich enough to be generous at all times, so that many will thank God for your gifts which they receive from us.
(2 Corinthians 9:11 GNB)
For this service you perform not only meets the needs of God's people, but also produces an outpouring of gratitude to God.
(2 Corinthians 9:12 GNB)
And because of the proof which this service of yours brings, many will give glory to God for your loyalty to the gospel of Christ, which you profess, and for your generosity in sharing with them and everyone else.
(2 Corinthians 9:13 GNB)
And so with deep affection they will pray for you because of the extraordinary grace God has shown you.
(2 Corinthians 9:14 GNB)
Let us thank God for his priceless gift!
(2 Corinthians 9:15 GNB)
As for us, however, our boasting will not go beyond certain limits; it will stay within the limits of the work which God has set for us, and this includes our work among you.
(2 Corinthians 10:13 GNB)
And since you are within those limits, we were not going beyond them when we came to you, bringing the Good News about Christ.
(2 Corinthians 10:14 GNB)
So we do not boast about the work that others have done beyond the limits God set for us. Instead, we hope that your faith may grow and that we may be able to do a much greater work among you, always within the limits that God has set.
(2 Corinthians 10:15 GNB)
Then we can preach the Good News in other countries beyond you and shall not have to boast about work already done in someone else's field.
(2 Corinthians 10:16 GNB)
I am surprised at you! In no time at all you are deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ, and are accepting another gospel.
(Galatians 1:6 GNB)
Actually, there is no "other gospel," but I say this because there are some people who are upsetting you and trying to change the gospel of Christ.
(Galatians 1:7 GNB)
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel that is different from the one we preached to you, may he be condemned to hell!
(Galatians 1:8 GNB)
We have said it before, and now I say it again: if anyone preaches to you a gospel that is different from the one you accepted, may he be condemned to hell!
(Galatians 1:9 GNB)
Does this sound as if I am trying to win human approval? No indeed! What I want is God's approval! Am I trying to be popular with people? If I were still trying to do so, I would not be a servant of Christ.
(Galatians 1:10 GNB)
Let me tell you, my friends, that the gospel I preach is not of human origin.
(Galatians 1:11 GNB)
I did not receive it from any human being, nor did anyone teach it to me. It was Jesus Christ himself who revealed it to me.
(Galatians 1:12 GNB)
And you too, my faithful partner, I want you to help these women; for they have worked hard with me to spread the gospel, together with Clement and all my other fellow workers, whose names are in God's book of the living.
(Philippians 4:3 GNB)
May you always be joyful in your union with the Lord. I say it again: rejoice!
(Philippians 4:4 GNB)
Show a gentle attitude toward everyone. The Lord is coming soon.
(Philippians 4:5 GNB)
Don't worry about anything, but in all your prayers ask God for what you need, always asking him with a thankful heart.
(Philippians 4:6 GNB)
And God's peace, which is far beyond human understanding, will keep your hearts and minds safe in union with Christ Jesus.
(Philippians 4:7 GNB)
In conclusion, my friends, fill your minds with those things that are good and that deserve praise: things that are true, noble, right, pure, lovely, and honorable.
(Philippians 4:8 GNB)
Put into practice what you learned and received from me, both from my words and from my actions. And the God who gives us peace will be with you.
(Philippians 4:9 GNB)
In my life in union with the Lord it is a great joy to me that after so long a time you once more had the chance of showing that you care for me. I don't mean that you had stopped caring for me---you just had no chance to show it.
(Philippians 4:10 GNB)
And I am not saying this because I feel neglected, for I have learned to be satisfied with what I have.
(Philippians 4:11 GNB)
I know what it is to be in need and what it is to have more than enough. I have learned this secret, so that anywhere, at any time, I am content, whether I am full or hungry, whether I have too much or too little.
(Philippians 4:12 GNB)
I have the strength to face all conditions by the power that Christ gives me.
(Philippians 4:13 GNB)
But it was very good of you to help me in my troubles.
(Philippians 4:14 GNB)
You Philippians know very well that when I left Macedonia in the early days of preaching the Good News, you were the only church to help me; you were the only ones who shared my profits and losses.
(Philippians 4:15 GNB)
More than once when I needed help in Thessalonica, you sent it to me.
(Philippians 4:16 GNB)
For we brought the Good News to you, not with words only, but also with power and the Holy Spirit, and with complete conviction of its truth. You know how we lived when we were with you; it was for your own good.
(1 Thessalonians 1:5 GNB)
You imitated us and the Lord; and even though you suffered much, you received the message with the joy that comes from the Holy Spirit.
(1 Thessalonians 1:6 GNB)
So you became an example to all believers in Macedonia and Achaia.
(1 Thessalonians 1:7 GNB)
Our friends, you yourselves know that our visit to you was not a failure.
(1 Thessalonians 2:1 GNB)
You know how we had already been mistreated and insulted in Philippi before we came to you in Thessalonica. And even though there was much opposition, our God gave us courage to tell you the Good News that comes from him.
(1 Thessalonians 2:2 GNB)
Our appeal to you is not based on error or impure motives, nor do we try to trick anyone.
(1 Thessalonians 2:3 GNB)
Instead, we always speak as God wants us to, because he has judged us worthy to be entrusted with the Good News. We do not try to please people, but to please God, who tests our motives.
(1 Thessalonians 2:4 GNB)
You know very well that we did not come to you with flattering talk, nor did we use words to cover up greed---God is our witness!
(1 Thessalonians 2:5 GNB)
We did not try to get praise from anyone, either from you or from others,
(1 Thessalonians 2:6 GNB)
even though as apostles of Christ we could have made demands on you. But we were gentle when we were with you, like a mother taking care of her children.
(1 Thessalonians 2:7 GNB)
Because of our love for you we were ready to share with you not only the Good News from God but even our own lives. You were so dear to us!
(1 Thessalonians 2:8 GNB)
Surely you remember, our friends, how we worked and toiled! We worked day and night so that we would not be any trouble to you as we preached to you the Good News from God.
(1 Thessalonians 2:9 GNB)
You are our witnesses, and so is God, that our conduct toward you who believe was pure, right, and without fault.
(1 Thessalonians 2:10 GNB)
You know that we treated each one of you just as parents treat their own children.
(1 Thessalonians 2:11 GNB)
We encouraged you, we comforted you, and we kept urging you to live the kind of life that pleases God, who calls you to share in his own Kingdom and glory.
(1 Thessalonians 2:12 GNB)
And there is another reason why we always give thanks to God. When we brought you God's message, you heard it and accepted it, not as a message from human beings but as God's message, which indeed it is. For God is at work in you who believe.
(1 Thessalonians 2:13 GNB)
Re Edit
That teaching is found in the gospel that was entrusted to me to announce, the Good News from the glorious and blessed God.
(1 Timothy 1:11 GNB)
I give thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength for my work. I thank him for considering me worthy and appointing me to serve him,
(1 Timothy 1:12 GNB)
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.
(1 Timothy 1:13 GNB)
For the Spirit that God has given us does not make us timid; instead, his Spirit fills us with power, love, and self-control.
(2 Timothy 1:7 GNB)
Do not be ashamed, then, of witnessing for our Lord; neither be ashamed of me, a prisoner for Christ's sake. Instead, take your part in suffering for the Good News, as God gives you the strength for it.
(2 Timothy 1:8 GNB)
He saved us and called us to be his own people, not because of what we have done, but because of his own purpose and grace. He gave us this grace by means of Christ Jesus before the beginning of time,
(2 Timothy 1:9 GNB)
but now it has been revealed to us through the coming of our Savior, Christ Jesus. He has ended the power of death and through the gospel has revealed immortal life.
(2 Timothy 1:10 GNB)
God has appointed me as an apostle and teacher to proclaim the Good News,
(2 Timothy 1:11 GNB)
and it is for this reason that I suffer these things. But I am still full of confidence, because I know whom I have trusted, and I am sure that he is able to keep safe until that Day what he has entrusted to me.
(2 Timothy 1:12 GNB)
Hold firmly to the true words that I taught you, as the example for you to follow, and remain in the faith and love that are ours in union with Christ Jesus.
(2 Timothy 1:13 GNB)
As for you, my son, be strong through the grace that is ours in union with Christ Jesus.
(2 Timothy 2:1 GNB)
Take the teachings that you heard me proclaim in the presence of many witnesses, and entrust them to reliable people, who will be able to teach others also.
(2 Timothy 2:2 GNB)
Take your part in suffering, as a loyal soldier of Christ Jesus.
(2 Timothy 2:3 GNB)
A soldier on active duty wants to please his commanding officer and so does not get mixed up in the affairs of civilian life.
(2 Timothy 2:4 GNB)
An athlete who runs in a race cannot win the prize unless he obeys the rules.
(2 Timothy 2:5 GNB)
The farmer who has done the hard work should have the first share of the harvest.
(2 Timothy 2:6 GNB)
Think about what I am saying, because the Lord will enable you to understand it all.
(2 Timothy 2:7 GNB)
Remember Jesus Christ, who was raised from death, who was a descendant of David, as is taught in the Good News I preach.
(2 Timothy 2:8 GNB)
Because I preach the Good News, I suffer and I am even chained like a criminal. But the word of God is not in chains,
(2 Timothy 2:9 GNB)
and so I endure everything for the sake of God's chosen people, in order that they too may obtain the salvation that comes through Christ Jesus and brings eternal glory.
(2 Timothy 2:10 GNB)
This is a true saying: "If we have died with him, we shall also live with him.
(2 Timothy 2:11 GNB)
If we continue to endure, we shall also rule with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.
(2 Timothy 2:12 GNB)
If we are not faithful, he remains faithful, because he cannot be false to himself."
(2 Timothy 2:13 GNB)
Now, God has offered us the promise that we may receive that rest he spoke about. Let us take care, then, that none of you will be found to have failed to receive that promised rest.
(Hebrews 4:1 GNB)
For we have heard the Good News, just as they did. They heard the message, but it did them no good, because when they heard it, they did not accept it with faith.
(Hebrews 4:2 GNB)
We who believe, then, do receive that rest which God promised. It is just as he said, "I was angry and made a solemn promise: 'They will never enter the land where I would have given them rest!' " He said this even though his work had been finished from the time he created the world.
(Hebrews 4:3 GNB)
For somewhere in the Scriptures this is said about the seventh day: "God rested on the seventh day from all his work."
(Hebrews 4:4 GNB)
This same matter is spoken of again: "They will never enter that land where I would have given them rest."
(Hebrews 4:5 GNB)
Those who first heard the Good News did not receive that rest, because they did not believe. There are, then, others who are allowed to receive it.
(Hebrews 4:6 GNB)
As the scripture says, "All human beings are like grass, and all their glory is like wild flowers. The grass withers, and the flowers fall,
(1 Peter 1:24 GNB)
but the word of the Lord remains forever." This word is the Good News that was proclaimed to you.
(1 Peter 1:25 GNB)
That is why the Good News was preached also to the dead, to those who had been judged in their physical existence as everyone is judged; it was preached to them so that in their spiritual existence they may live as God lives.
(1 Peter 4:6 GNB)
The end of all things is near. You must be self-controlled and alert, to be able to pray.
(1 Peter 4:7 GNB)
The time has come for judgment to begin, and God's own people are the first to be judged. If it starts with us, how will it end with those who do not believe the Good News from God?
(1 Peter 4:17 GNB)
Then I saw another angel flying high in the air, with an eternal message of Good News to announce to the peoples of the earth, to every race, tribe, language, and nation.
(Revelation 14:6 GNB)
On the next day, we, who were Paul's companions, departed, and came to Caesarea . We entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him.
(Acts 21:8 WEB)
But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
(2 Timothy 4:5 WEB)
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