2You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine. 2 Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.3 Likewise, teach the older women to be reverent in the way they live, not to be slanderers or addicted t ...Show more
Conscientious Citizens (Titus 3:1-8)
3Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, 2 to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and to show true humility toward all men.3 At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by ...Show more
How Long and Why? (Habakkuk 1:1-11)
1The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet received. 2How long, O LORD, must I call for help,but you do not listen?Or cry out to you, “Violence!”but you do not save?3Why do you make me look at injustice?Why do you tolerate wrong?Destruction and violence are before me;there is strife, ...Show more
One More Question (Habakkuk 1:12-2:1)
12O LORD, are you not from everlasting?My God, my Holy One, we will not die.O LORD, you have appointed them to execute judgment;O Rock, you have ordained them to punish.13Your eyes are too pure to look on evil;you cannot tolerate wrong.Why then do you tolerate the treacherous?Why ...Show more
Wait for It (Habakkuk 2:1–20)
2I will stand at my watchand station myself on the ramparts;I will look to see what he will say to me,and what answer I am to give to this complaint. 2 Then the LORD replied: “Write down the revelationand make it plain on tabletsso that a herald may run with it.3For the revelatio ...Show more