Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Isaiah+003         Chapter 3 (ESV) 16 The Lord said: Because the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with outstretched necks, glancing wantonly with their eyes, mincing along as they go, tinkling with their feet, 17 therefore the Lord will strike with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will lay…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Isaiah+002     Chapter 2  (ESV) 10 Enter into the rock and hide in the dust from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty. 11 The haughty looks of man shall be brought low, and the lofty pride of men shall be humbled, and the Lord alone will be…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Isaiah+001   ISAIAH INTRODUCTION The prophet Isaiah addressed the kingdom of Judah for forty years, beginning in the year that King Uzziah died (around 740 BC) and continuing at least to the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC. As with all the prophets, Isaiah based his message on the…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Philemon+001   PHILEMON   Introduction One of the people Paul chose to deliver the letters we know as Colossians and Ephesians was a man named Onesimus. Onesimus was originally from Colossae, and would have been known to the people there. But Paul was compelled to write a separate letter for…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Titus+003         Titus Chapter 2 (ESV) 1 But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. 2 Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. 3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Titus+002         Titus Chapter 2 (ESV) 1 But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. 2 Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. 3 Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=Titus+001         TITUS Introduction After the apostle Paul was released from prison in Rome, he discovered that renegade leaders were preying on the people of the church he had founded in Ephesus. He therefore left his long-time co-worker Timothy in that city with a letter authorizing him…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Timothy+004         2 Timothy  Chapter 4  (ESV) 1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort,…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Timothy+003         2 Timothy Chapter 3 (ESV) 10 You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness, 11 my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued…

  Read chapter in full: biblegateway.com/passage/?version=ESV&search=2Timothy+002         2 Timothy Chapter 2 (ESV) 14 Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. 15 Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling…