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The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners – of whom I am the foremost. But for that very reason I received mercy, so that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display the utmost patience, making me an example to those who would come to believe in him for eternal life. (vs. 15-16)

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone (v. 1)

for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he take care of God’s church? (v. 5)

Do not ordain anyone hastily, and do not participate in the sins of others; keep yourself pure. (v. 22)

For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners. (v. 13b)

But as for you … shun all this; pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. (v. 11)

Then he said to her, ‘For saying that, you may go – the demon has left your daughter.’ So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone. (v. 29-30)

But Jonah set out to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. (v. 3)

Then I said, ‘I am driven away from your sight; how shall I look again upon your holy temple?’ (v. 4)

The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, ‘Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.’ (v. 1-2)

When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. (v. 6)

] who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited. (v.6)