Liturgy Gospel
Paulines Epistle
Paul, the servant of our Lord Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, appointed to the Gospel of God.
A reading from the Epistle of our teacher Paul to Timothy .
May his blessings be upon us.
Amen.
2 Timothy 3 : 1 - end
Chapter 3
| 1 | But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:
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| 2 | For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
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| 3 | unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,
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| 4 | traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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| 5 | having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
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| 6 | For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
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| 7 | always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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| 8 | Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;
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| 9 | but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.
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| 10 | But you have carefully followed my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance,
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| 11 | persecutions, afflictions, which happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra--what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.
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| 12 | Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
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| 13 | But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
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| 14 | But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,
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| 15 | and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
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| 16 | All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
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| 17 | that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
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2 Timothy 4 : 1 - 5
Chapter 4
| 1 | I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:
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| 2 | Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
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| 3 | For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;
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| 4 | and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
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| 5 | But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
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The grace of God the Father be with you all.
Amen.
