I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lo'is and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you.

Samuel was ministering before the LORD, a boy girded with a linen ephod.

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Ashe'rim, and the graven and the molten images.

O God, from my youth thou hast taught me, and I still proclaim thy wondrous deeds.

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when you will say, "I have no pleasure in them";

for he will be great before the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom; and the favor of God was upon him.

But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince.

But Jesus answered them, "You are wrong, because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God.

So they drew near to the village to which they were going. He appeared to be going further,

And they rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven gathered together and those who were with them,

and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

And Paul went in, as was his custom, and for three weeks he argued with them from the scriptures,

which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures,

to the only wise God be glory for evermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.

For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures,

that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures,

First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation,

because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

speaking of this as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.

Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them; and there is nothing hid from its heat.

yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

I do not receive glory from men.

To him all the prophets bear witness that every one who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name."

And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a tomb.

Let it be known to you therefore, brethren, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,

and by him every one that believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

The prophets who prophesied of the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired about this salvation;

It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things which have now been announced to you by those who preached the good news to you through the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.

And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

He who has the Son has life; he who has not the Son of God has not life.

Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, "You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God." For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.