Bible Verses About Preaching

You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous and blameless our behavior was in the sight of you believers;

for you know that we treated each one of you the way a father treats his children —

we encouraged you and comforted you and appealed to you to lead lives worthy of God, who calls you into his Kingdom and glory.

Oh, Timothy! Keep safe what has been entrusted to you. Turn away from the ungodly babblings and the argumentative opposition of what is falsely called “knowledge.”

For many who promise this “knowledge” have missed the mark, as far as the faith is concerned. Grace be with you.

Do all you can to present yourself to God as someone worthy of his approval, as a worker with no need to be ashamed, because he deals straightforwardly with the Word of the Truth.

But keep away from godless babbling, for those who engage in it will only become more ungodly,

but made public this word of his in its own season through a proclamation with which I have been entrusted by order of God, our Deliverer.

You can trust what I have just said, and I want you to speak with confidence about these things, so that those who have put their trust in God may apply themselves to doing good deeds. These are both good in themselves and valuable to the community.

But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, quarrels and fights about the Torah; because they are worthless and futile.

And he did not spare the ancient world; on the contrary, he preserved Noach, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, and brought the Flood upon a world of ungodly people.