Bible Verses About Commandments

Let the shammashim each be faithful to his wife, managing his children and household well.

For those who serve well as shammashim gain good standing for themselves and much boldness in the trust that comes through Yeshua the Messiah.

The Spirit expressly states that in the acharit-hayamim some people will apostatize from the faith by paying attention to deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.

Such teachings come from the hypocrisy of liars whose own consciences have been burned, as if with a red-hot branding iron.

They forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods which God created to be eaten with thanksgiving by those who have come to trust and to know the truth.

For everything created by God is good, and nothing received with thanksgiving needs to be rejected,

because the word of God and prayer make it holy.

If you present all this to the brothers, you will be serving the Messiah Yeshua well; it will show that you have digested the words of the faith and of the good teaching which you have followed.

But refuse godless bubbe-meises, and exercise yourself in godliness.

Don’t let anyone look down on you because of your youth; on the contrary, set the believers an example in your speech, behavior, love, trust and purity.

Until I come, pay attention to the public reading of the Scriptures.

Do not neglect your gift, which you were given through a prophecy when the body of elders gave you s’mikhah.

Be diligent about this work, throw yourself into it, so that your progress may be clear to everyone.

Pay attention to yourself and to the teaching, continue in it, for by so doing you will deliver both yourself and those who hear you.

Do not rebuke an older man sharply, but appeal to him as you would to a father; treat younger men like brothers,

older women like mothers and younger women like sisters, with absolute purity.

Show respect to widows who are really in need.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, first let them learn to do their religious duty to their own family and thus repay some of the debt they owe their forebears, for this is what is acceptable in the sight of God.

Now the widow who is really in need, the one who has been left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

But the one who is self-indulgent is already dead, even though she lives.

And instruct them about this, so that they will not be open to blame.

Moreover, anyone who does not provide for his own people, especially for his family, has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Let a widow be enrolled on the list of widows only if she is more than sixty years old, was faithful to her husband,

and is known for her good deeds — as one who has reared her children well, showed hospitality, washed the feet of God’s people, helped those in trouble, and engaged in all kinds of good work.

But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when they begin to feel natural passions that alienate them from the Messiah, they want to get married.