Bible in a Year.

On day 356, 1 John 4-5 emphasizes God's love and the assurance of faith in Christ. 1 Timothy 1-3 provides instructions on spiritual leadership, church conduct, and pastoral care. Proverbs 30:24-28 offers insights into the wisdom of creation, encouraging humility and reflection on human behavior.

Chapter 4

1. Dearly beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits if they be of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

2. By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is of God:

3. And every spirit that dissolveth Jesus, is not of God: and this is Antichrist, of whom you have heard that he cometh, and he is now already in the world.

4. You are of God, little children, and have overcome him. Because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

5. They are of the world: therefore of the world they speak, and the world heareth them.

6. We are of God. He that knoweth God, heareth us. He that is not of God, heareth us not. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

7. Dearly beloved, let us love one another, for charity is of God. And every one that loveth, is born of God, and knoweth God.

8. He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity.

9. By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.

10. In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.

11. My dearest, if God hath so loved us; we also ought to love one another.

12. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his charity is perfected in us.

13. In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us: because he hath given us of his spirit.

14. And we have seen, and do testify, that the Father hath sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.

15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

16. And we have known, and have believed the charity, which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him.

17. In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this world.

18. Fear is not in charity: but perfect charity casteth out fear, because fear hath pain. And he that feareth, is not perfected in charity.

19. Let us therefore love God, because God first hath loved us.

20. If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not?

21. And this commandment we have from God, that he, who loveth God, love also his brother.

Chapter 5

1. Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.

2. In this we know that we love the children of God: when we love God, and keep his commandments.

3. For this is the charity of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not heavy.

4. For whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith.

5. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

6. This is he that came by water and blood, Jesus Christ: not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit which testifieth, that Christ is the truth.

7. And there are three who give testimony in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. And these three are one.

8. And there are three that give testimony on earth: the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three are one.

9. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater, because he hath testified of his Son.

10. He that believeth in the Son of God, hath the testimony of God in himself. He that believeth not the Son, maketh him a liar: because he believeth not in the testimony which God hath testified of his Son.

11. And this is the testimony, that God hath given to us eternal life. And this life is in his Son.

12. He that hath the Son, hath life. He that hath not the Son, hath not life.

13. These things I write to you, that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.

14. And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That, whatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us.

15. And we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask: we know that we have the petitions which we request of him.

16. He that knoweth his brother to sin a sin which is not to death, let him ask, and life shall be given to him, who sinneth not to death. There is a sin unto death: for that I say not that any man ask.

17. All iniquity is sin. And there is a sin unto death.

18. We know that whosoever is born of God, sinneth not: but the generation of God preserveth him, and the wicked one toucheth him not.

19. We know that we are of God, and the whole world is seated in wickedness.

20. And we know that the Son of God is come: and he hath given us understanding that we may know the true God, and may be in his true Son. This is the true God and life eternal.

21. Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

Chapter 1

1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the commandment of God our Savior, and of Christ Jesus our hope:

2. To Timothy, his beloved son in faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and from Christ Jesus our Lord.

3. As I desired thee to remain at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some not to teach otherwise,

4. Not to give heed to fables and endless genealogies: which furnish questions rather than the edification of God, which is in faith.

5. Now the end of the commandment is charity, from a pure heart, and a good conscience, and an unfeigned faith.

6. From which things some going astray, are turned aside unto vain babbling:

7. Desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither the things they say, nor whereof they affirm.

8. But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully:

9. Knowing this, that the law is not made for the just man, but for the unjust and disobedient, for the ungodly, and for sinners, for the wicked and defiled, for murderers of fathers, and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

10. For fornicators, for them who defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and whatever other thing is contrary to sound doctrine,

11. Which is according to the gospel of the glory of the blessed God, which hath been committed to my trust.

12. I give thanks who hath strengthened me, even to Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he hath counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry;

13. Who before was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and contumelious. But I obtained the mercy of God, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

14. Now the grace of our Lord hath abounded exceedingly with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.

15. A faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into this world to save sinners, of whom I am the chief.

16. But for this cause have I obtained mercy: that in me first Christ Jesus might shew forth all patience, for the information of them that shall believe in him unto life everlasting.

17. Now to the king of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

18. This precept I commend to thee, O son Timothy; according to the prophecies going before on thee, that thou war in them a good warfare,

19. Having faith and a good conscience, which some rejecting have made shipwreck concerning the faith.

20. Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander, whom I have delivered up to Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

Chapter 2

1. I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men:

2. For kings, and for all that are in high station: that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all piety and chastity.

3. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour,

4. Who will have all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

5. For there is one God, and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus:

6. Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times.

7. Whereunto I am appointed a preacher and an apostle, (I say the truth, I lie not,) a doctor of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

8. I will therefore that men pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger and contention.

9. In like manner women also in decent apparel: adorning themselves with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly attire,

10. But as it becometh women professing godliness, with good works.

11. Let the woman learn in silence, with all subjection.

12. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence.

13. For Adam was first formed; then Eve.

14. And Adam was not seduced; but the woman being seduced, was in the transgression.

15. Yet she shall be saved through childbearing; if she continue in faith, and love, and sanctification, with sobriety.

Chapter 3

1. A faithful saying: if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

2. It behoveth therefore a bishop to be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, of good behaviour, chaste, given to hospitality, a teacher,

3. Not given to wine, no striker, but modest, not quarrelsome, not covetous, but

4. One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all chastity.

5. But if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?

6. Not a neophyte: lest being puffed up with pride, he fall into the judgment of the devil.

7. Moreover he must have a good testimony of them who are without: lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

8. Deacons in like manner chaste, not double tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre:

9. Holding the mystery of faith in a pure conscience.

10. And let these also first be proved: and so let them minister, having no crime.

11. The women in like manner chaste, not slanderers, but sober, faithful in all things.

12. Let deacons be the husbands of one wife: who rule well their children, and their own houses.

13. For they that have ministered well, shall purchase to themselves a good degree, and much confidence in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

14. These things I write to thee, hoping that I shall come to thee shortly.

15. But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

16. And evidently great is the mystery of godliness, which was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, appeared unto angels, hath been preached unto the Gentiles, is believed in the world, is taken up in glory.

24. There are four very little things of the earth, and they are wiser than the wise:

25. The ants, a feeble people, which provide themselves food in the harvest:

26. The rabbit, a weak people, which maketh its bed in the rock:

27. The locust hath no king, yet they all go out by their bands.

28. The stellio supporteth itself on hands, and dwelleth in kings' houses.