Key Scriptures

1 Timothy 4:16 English Standard Version (ESV)

16 Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.

2 Timothy 2:4 English Standard Version (ESV)

4 No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him.

2 Corinthians 1:9 English Standard Version (ESV)

9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.