Following Instructions

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments.

If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will give you counsel and watch over you.

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

For lack of guidance, a nation falls, but with many counselors comes deliverance.

Although I hope to come to you soon, I am writing you these things

…in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

You are to imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

Now I commend you for remembering me in everything and for maintaining the traditions, just as I passed them on to you.

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.