when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.

But Samuel was serving before Jehovah, even as a boy, girded with a linen ephod.

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, he began to seek the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the groves, the graven images, and the molten images.

O God, You have taught me from my youth; and to this day I have declared Your marvelous works.

I love those who love me, and those who seek me early find me.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, so that the evil days do not come, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink. He will also be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

And the Child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him.

But I will tell you what is written in the Scripture of Truth. (And no one holds strong with me in these things, except Michael your ruler.

Jesus answered and said to them, You are in error, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.

And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

And they said to one another, Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?

And He opened their mind to understand the Scriptures.

And Paul, as his custom was, went in to them, and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

which He promised before through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures,

but now has been made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures has been made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the eternal God, for obedience to the faith;

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

and that He was buried, and that He was raised the third day according to the Scriptures,

knowing this first, that not any of the prophecies of Scripture came into being from personal exposition,

for prophecy was not formerly brought forth by man's choice, but holy men of God spoke as they were propelled along by the Holy Spirit.

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which the unlearned and unstable twist, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction.

The Law of Jehovah is perfect, converting the soul; the Testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.

You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of Me.

But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

To Him all the prophets witness that, through His name, everyone believing into Him will receive remission of sins.

Now when they had fulfilled all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the tree and laid Him in a tomb.

Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through this One is preached to you the remission of sins;

and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the Law of Moses.

Of this salvation the prophets have sought out and searched diligently, who prophesied concerning the grace towards you,

To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from Heaven; things which angels desire to look into.

And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

And I fell at his feet to do homage to him. But he said to me, Look out! No! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Do homage to God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.