Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.
This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.
And they were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the scribes.
And they were all amazed and said to one another, “What is this word? For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”
And they were all amazed, so that they questioned among themselves, saying, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him.”
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