teaching and preaching
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2that you should preach the word urgently, in season and out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke, with all patience and doctrine.
1My brothers, not many of you should choose to become teachers, knowing that you shall receive a stricter judgment.
16All Scripture, having been divinely inspired, is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in justice, 17so that the man of God may be perfect, having been trained for every good work.
18And so the fruit of justice is sown in peace by those who make peace.
15And he said to them: “Go forth to the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature.
15Be solicitous in the task of presenting yourself before God as a proven and unashamed worker who has handled the Word of Truth correctly.
16All Scripture, having been divinely inspired, is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in justice,
35While he was still speaking, they arrived from the ruler of the synagogue, saying: “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?” 36But Jesus, having heard the word that was spoken, said to the ruler of the synagogue: “Do not be afraid. You need only believe.” 37And he would not permit anyone to follow him, except Peter, and James, and John the brother of James. 38And they went to the house of the ruler of the synagogue. And he saw a tumult, and weeping, and much wailing. 39And entering, he said to them: “Why are you disturbed and weeping? The girl is not dead, but is asleep.” 40And they derided him. Yet truly, having put them all out, he took the father and mother of the girl, and those who were with him, and he entered to where the girl was lying.
105Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my paths.
9All those who have been born of God do not commit sin. For the offspring of God abides in them, and he is not able to sin, because he was born of God.
14And the Word became flesh, and he lived among us, and we saw his glory, glory like that of an only-begotten Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
2Now I praise you, brothers, because you are mindful of me in everything, in such a way as to hold to my precepts as I have handed them down to you. 3So I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ. But the head of woman is man. Yet truly, the head of Christ is God. 4Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraces his head. 5But every woman praying or prophesying with her head not covered disgraces her head. For it is the same as if her head were shaven. 6So if a woman is not veiled, let her hair be cut off. Truly then, if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off, or to have her head shaven, then she should cover her head. 7Certainly, a man ought not to cover his head, for he is the image and glory of God. But woman is the glory of man.