Because of this, I have sent to you Timothy, who is my dear and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose.

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But to each one as the Lord has apportioned. As God has called each one, thus let him live--and thus I order in all the churches.

And they were both righteous in the sight of God, living blamelessly in all the commandments and regulations of the Lord.

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to [you] in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more.

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions which you were taught, whether by [spoken] word or by letter from us.

But we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, [that] you keep away from every brother who lives irresponsibly and not according to the tradition that they received from us.