Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of the Christ, that, whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

holding fast the sure word as it is taught, that he may be able, by sound teaching, both to exhort and to convince the opposers.

but Christ, as a Son over his own house; whose house we are, if we hold the confidence and the joy of our hope firm to the end.

Seeing, then, that we have a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

let us hold fast the unwavering confession of our hope, for he is faithful who has promised;

Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I thought it necessary to write to you, and exhort you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

but what you have, hold fast till I come.

Remember, therefore, how you have received and heard, and be watchful and repent. If, therefore, you do not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you shall not know at what hour I will come upon you.

The form

an instructor of the simple, a teacher of the unlearned, because you have the form of true knowledge in the law;

But thanks be to God, that though you were the servants of sin, yet you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching, in which you have been instructed;

for lewd persons, for sodomites, for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and for whatever other thing is opposed to sound teaching,

If any one teaches other things, and does not assent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teaching which is according to godliness,

But do you speak the things that become sound teaching;

Which

and the things which you have heard from me through many witnesses, these do you commit to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

Do those things which you have learned and received, and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

In faith

since we heard of your faithfulness in Christ Jesus, and your love for all the saints,

and the grace of our Lord was very abundant with faith, and love which is in Christ Jesus.

General references

But do you speak the things that become sound teaching;