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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6But godliness with contentment is great gain, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,” |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you. |
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