Fight the good fight of faith; take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

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Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the

treasure which has been entrusted to you.

This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance with the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you fight the good fight,

Do not lay hands upon anyone too hastily and thereby share responsibility for the sins of others; keep yourself free from sin.

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The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged,

For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel.

For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

And Jesus said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his treasure things new and old.”

An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

In pointing out these things to the brethren, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, constantly nourished on the words of the faith and of the

sound doctrine which you have been following.

For this reason I left you in Crete, that you would set in order what remains and appoint elders in every city as I directed you,

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Then they shall take other stones and replace those stones, and he shall take other plaster and replaster the house.