as you know how we exhorted, and encouraged, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children,

And he laid his hands on him and commissioned him, as Jehovah had commanded by the hand of Moses.

And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure you to speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of Jehovah?

And the king said to him, How many times shall I make you swear that you tell me nothing but the truth in the name of Jehovah?

But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, I adjure You by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!

And he cried out with a loud voice and said, What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure You by God that You do not torment me.

Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, We command you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.

As I urged you when I went into Macedonia; remain in Ephesus that you may charge some not to teach other doctrines,

This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare,

And these things command, that they may be blameless.

I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you keep watch over these things without prejudice, doing nothing with partiality.

I charge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

Command those who are rich in this present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.

I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:

Now when this epistle is read among you, see that it is read also in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.

And if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle, note that person and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed.

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the Heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus,