1 Timothy 6:11
Good News Translation
But you, man of God, avoid all these things. Strive for righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness.

New Revised Standard Version
But as for you, man of God, shun all this; pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.

Contemporary English Version
Timothy, you belong to God, so keep away from all these evil things. Try your best to please God and to be like him. Be faithful, loving, dependable, and gentle.

New American Bible
But you, man of God, avoid all this. Instead, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But thou, O man of God, fly these things: and pursue justice, godliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness.

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But thou, O man of God, fly these things: and pursue justice, godliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness.

But.

2 Timothy 2:22 But flee thou youthful desires, and pursue justice, faith, charity and peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

O man.

1 Timothy 6:20 O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding the profane novelties of words and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called.

Deuteronomy 33:1 This is the blessing, wherewith the man of God, Moses, blessed the children of Israel, before his death.

1 Samuel 2:27 And there came a man of God to Heli, and said to him: Thus saith the Lord: Did I not plainly appear to thy father's house, when they were in Egypt in the house of Pharao?

1 Samuel 9:6 And he said to him: Behold there is a man of God in this city, a famous man: all that he saith, cometh certainly to pass. Now, therefore, let us go thither, perhaps he may tell us of our way, for which we are come.

1 Kings 13:1,26 And behold there came a man of God out of Juda, by the word of the Lord, to Bethel, when Jeroboam was standing upon the altar, and burning incense. . . .

1 Kings 17:18,24 And she said to Elias: What have I to do with thee, thou man of God? art thou come to me, that my iniquities should be remembered, and that thou shouldst kill my son? . . .

1 Kings 20:28 (And a man of God coming, said to the king of Israel: Thus saith the Lord: Because the Syrians have said: The Lord is God of the hills, but is not God of the valleys: I will deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.)

2 Kings 1:9,13 And he sent to him a captain of fifty, and the fifty men that were under him. And he went up to him, and as he was sitting on the top of a hill, he said to him: Man of God, the king hath commanded that thou come down. . . .

2 Kings 5:20 But Giezi, the servant of the man of God, said: My master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving of him that which he brought: as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take something of him.

2 Kings 23:17 And he said: What is that monument which I see? And the men of that city answered: It is the sepulchre of the man of God, who came from Juda, and foretold these things which thou hast done upon the altar of Bethel.

1 Chronicles 23:14 The sons also of Moses, the man of God, were numbered in the tribe of Levi.

2 Chronicles 8:14 And he appointed according to the order of David his father the offices of the priests in their ministries: and the Levites in their order to give praise, and minister before the priests according to the duty of every day: and the porters in their divisions by gate and gate: for so David the man of God had commanded.

Nehemiah 12:24,36 Now the chief of the Levites were Hasebia, Serebia, and Josue the son of Cedmihel: and their brethren by their courses, to praise and to give thanks according to the commandment of David the man of God, and to wait equally in order. . . .

Jeremiah 35:4 And I brought them into the house of the Lord, to the treasure house of the sons of Hanan, the son of Jegedelias the man of God, which was by the treasure house of the princes, above the treasure of Maasias the son of Sellum, who was keeper of the entry.

2 Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work.

flee.

1 Corinthians 6:18 Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

1 Corinthians 10:14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols.

2 Timothy 2:22 But flee thou youthful desires, and pursue justice, faith, charity and peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

and.

1 Timothy 5:10 Having testimony for her good works, if she have brought up children, if she have received to harbour, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have ministered to them that suffer tribulation, if she have diligently followed every good work.

Deuteronomy 16:20 Thou shalt follow justly after that which is just: that thou mayst live and possess the land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee.

Psalm 34:14 Turn away from evil and do good: seek after peace and pursue it.

Psalm 38:20 They that render evil for good, have detracted me, because I followed goodness.

Isaiah 51:1 Give ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug out.

Romans 14:19 Therefore, let us follow after the things that are of peace and keep the things that are of edification, one towards another.

1 Corinthians 14:1 Follow after charity, be zealous for spiritual gifts; but rather that you may prophesy.

2 Timothy 2:22 But flee thou youthful desires, and pursue justice, faith, charity and peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man shall see God.

1 Peter 3:11 Let him decline from evil and do good: Let him seek after peace and pursue it:

righteousness.

1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful, in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

Galatians 5:22,23 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity, . . .

Philippians 4:8,9 For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things. . . .

Titus 2:11,12 For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men: . . .

2 Peter 1:5-7 And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in virtue, knowledge: . . .

Context
Fight the Good Fight
10For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith and have entangled themselves in many sorrows. 11But thou, O man of God, fly these things: and pursue justice, godliness, faith, charity, patience, mildness. 12Fight the good fight of faith. Lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art called and be it confessed a good confession before many witnesses.…
Cross References
Proverbs 15:9
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: he that followeth justice is beloved by him.

1 Timothy 1:14
Now the grace of our Lord hath abounded exceedingly with faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.

2 Timothy 2:21
If any man therefore shall cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified and profitable to the Lord, prepared unto every good work.

2 Timothy 2:22
But flee thou youthful desires, and pursue justice, faith, charity and peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

2 Timothy 3:10
But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

2 Timothy 3:17
That the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every good work.

1 Timothy 6:10
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