2 Timothy 4:5
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5 As for you, be sober in everything, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.(A)
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2 Timothy 1:8
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8 Do not be ashamed, then, of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel, in the power of God,(A)
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Colossians 4:17
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17 And say to Archippus, “See that you complete the task that you have received in the Lord.”(A)
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2 Timothy 2:3
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3 Share in suffering like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
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1 Peter 1:13
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A Call to Holy Living
13 Therefore prepare your minds for action;[a] discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed.(A)
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- 1.13 Gk gird up the loins of your mind
2 Timothy 3:10-12
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Paul’s Charge to Timothy
10 Now you have observed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,(A) 11 my persecutions, and my sufferings, the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.(B) 12 Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.(C)
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1 Timothy 4:15
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15 Put these things into practice, devote yourself to them, so that all may see your progress.
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1 Timothy 4:12
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12 Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.(A)
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Ephesians 4:11
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11 He himself granted that some are apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers(A)
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Acts 21:8
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8 The next day we left and came to Caesarea, and we went into the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the seven, and stayed with him.(A)
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1 Thessalonians 5:6
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6 So, then, let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,(A)
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Acts 20:30-31
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30 Some even from your own group will come distorting the truth in order to entice the disciples to follow them. 31 Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to warn everyone with tears.(A)
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2 Timothy 2:10
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10 Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, so that they may also obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.(A)
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Colossians 1:25
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25 I became its minister according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,(A)
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Romans 15:19
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19 by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit,[a] so that from Jerusalem and as far around as Illyricum I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.(A)
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- 15.19 Other ancient authorities read the Spirit of God or the Holy Spirit
Luke 12:37
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37 Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them.(A)
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Mark 13:37
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37 And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.”
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Mark 13:34
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34 It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his slaves in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch.(A)
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Ezekiel 33:7
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7 So you, mortal, I have made a sentinel for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.(A)
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Ezekiel 33:2
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2 O Mortal, speak to your people and say to them: If I bring the sword upon a land and the people of the land take one of their number as their sentinel,(A)
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Ezekiel 3:17
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17 Mortal, I have made you a sentinel for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.(A)
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Jeremiah 6:17
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17 Also I raised up sentinels for you:
“Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!”
But they said, “We will not give heed.”(A)
Isaiah 62:6
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6 Upon your walls, O Jerusalem,
I have posted sentinels;
all day and all night
they shall never be silent.
You who remind the Lord,
take no rest,(A)
Isaiah 56:9-10
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The Corruption of Israel’s Rulers
9 All you wild animals,
all you wild animals in the forest, come to devour!(A)
10 Israel’s[a] sentinels are blind;
they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent dogs
that cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
loving to slumber.(B)
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- 56.10 Heb His
Revelation 3:2
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2 Wake up and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God.
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