You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Timothy is urged toward grace, faithfulness, and patient rather than quarrelsome teaching.
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Anonymous. Largely a farewell address placed in Moses' mouth by a narrator who goes on to describe his death.
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Anonymous. Tells Joshua's story in the third person.
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Many hands over centuries. Superscriptions assign a number to David; those are ancient editorial notes, not signatures.
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A collection headed as Solomon's, which elsewhere names other compilers.
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Timothy is urged toward grace, faithfulness, and patient rather than quarrelsome teaching.
In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
In his farewell to the elders, Paul urges support for the weak and recalls Jesus' teaching about giving.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
The letter describes a community teaching, encouraging, and singing with gratitude.
Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Closing counsel encourages grateful prayer and gracious speech.
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.
Israel is urged to reflect God's care for orphans, widows, and foreigners.
Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
Israel is urged to reflect God's care for orphans, widows, and foreigners.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
The teacher reflects on life's different seasons, limited understanding, and everyday gifts of enjoyment.
Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.
The teacher reflects on life's different seasons, limited understanding, and everyday gifts of enjoyment.
with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,
The letter encourages patience, compassion, and forgiveness within the community.
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
The letter encourages patience, compassion, and forgiveness within the community.
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
Beloved children are called to imitate God through a life of love.