1 Timothy 5:25 Cross References - Mace

²⁵ virtue wears no disguise, and vice cannot be long conceal'd.

¹⁶ even so let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father who is in heaven.

³ but when you give alms, "let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth:" ⁴ that your alms may be secret: and your father who sees your secret actions, shall reward you. ⁵ And when you pray, be not as the hypocrites are: for they chuse to stand praying in publick places, and at the corners of the streets, to be observ'd by men. I assure you, they have their reward. ⁶ but you, when you pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut the door, pray to your father who is with you in your retirement, and your father who observeth the actions of your retirement shall reward you.

³³ However, when a man has once lighted his lamp, he does not hide it in a by-place, or under a bushel; but sets it on a stand, that all who come in may have light.

³⁶ At Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha, that is in Greek, Dorcas: this woman was very active in all the offices of benevolence and charity.

²² they answered, Cornelius the centurion, a man of probity and piety, one that has an universal good character among the Jews, was divinely admonish'd by an holy angel to send for you to his house, to hear what you had to say to him.

¹ Paul arrived then at Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy, whose mother was a Jewish convert, but his father a Greek. ² as the brethren of Lystra and Iconium gave him a good character, Paul had a mind he should accompany him. ³ so he took him and had him circumcised, out of regard to the Jews of that country, who all knew his father was a Greek.

¹² there one Ananias a religious observer of the law, who had the good word of all the Jews in that place, came to see me,

²² but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance: ²³ against such there is no law.

¹¹ abounding in good works by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

⁷ besides, he ought to stand fair in the opinion of unbelievers, lest he fall into disgrace, and the ambushes of the accuser.