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2 Timothy 2 3-2 Timothy 2 4
Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.No one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of civilian life; he seeks to please the commanding officer.
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1 Timothy 5 6
however, she who is self-indulgent is dead even while she lives.
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John 21:15-17
When they had eaten breakfast, Jesus asked Simon Peter,“ Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”“ Yes, Lord,” he said to him,“ you know that I love you.”“ Feed my lambs,” he told him.A second time he asked him,“ Simon, son of John, do you love me?”“ Yes, Lord,” he said to him,“ you know that I love you.”“ Shepherd my sheep,” he told him.He asked him the third time,“ Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved that he asked him the third time,“ Do you love me?” He said,“ Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.”“ Feed my sheep,” Jesus said.
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Luke 15:32
But we had to celebrate and rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
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Revelation 3:1
“ Write to the angel of the church in Sardis: Thus says the one who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your works; you have a reputation for being alive, but you are dead.
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2 Timothy 4 2
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; correct, rebuke, and encourage with great patience and teaching.
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2 Timothy 4 5
But as for you, exercise self-control in everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
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2 Corinthians 5 16-2 Corinthians 5 18
From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way.Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
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1 Corinthians 9 16
For if I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am compelled to preach— and woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
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Ephesians 2:1
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins
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Ephesians 2:5
made us alive with Christ even though we were dead in trespasses. You are saved by grace!