M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan

Remind Everyone How To Behave Toward Other People

3 Be reminding them to be subject to rulers, to authorities; to be obedient^[a]; to be ready for every good work; ² to blaspheme no one; to be non-quarrelsome, kind, demonstrating all gentleness toward all people.

For We Also Were Once Foolish And Deceived, But God Saved Us By His Mercy And Grace

³ For we also were once foolish^[b], disobedient, being deceived, being-slaves^[c] to various desires and pleasures, spending life in malice and envy, detested^[d], hating one another. ⁴ But when the kindness and love-for-mankind of our Savior God appeared, ⁵ He saved us^[e]— not by works which we did in [our] righteousness, but according-to^[f] His mercy, through a washing^[g] of ^[h] regeneration^[i] and a renewing^[j] of ^[k] the Holy Spirit, ⁶ Whom He richly poured-out upon us through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ in order that having been declared-righteous by the grace of that One, we might become heirs according-to^[l] the hope of eternal life. ⁸ The saying is trustworthy.

Speak With Confidence, So That Believers Take The Lead In Good Works

And concerning these things I want you to be speaking-confidently, in order that the ones having believed in God may be careful^[m] to take-the-lead^[n] in good works. These things are good and profitable for people. ⁹ But be shunning foolish^[o] controversies and genealogies and quarrels and battles pertaining-to-the-Law. For they are unprofitable and worthless^[p]. ¹⁰ Be declining^[q] a divisive person after a first and second admonition, ¹¹ knowing that such a one has been perverted^[r] and is sinning, being self-condemned.

¹² When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, be diligent to come to me in Nicopolis, for I have determined to spend-the-winter there. ¹³ Diligently^[s] send-forward^[t] Zenas the lawyer^[u] and Apollos, in order that nothing may be lacking for them. ¹⁴ And let our people also be learning to take-the-lead^[v] in good works for necessary^[w] needs, in order that they may not be unfruitful. ¹⁵ All the ones with me greet you. Greet the ones loving us in the faith. Grace be with you all.