Only conduct yourselves as citizens worthily of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

Prove all things, hold fast the good;

holding firmly the faithful word taught, that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to convince those who contradict.

but Christ as a son over his house, whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of the hope.

HAVING therefore a great chief priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast the profession.

let us hold firmly the profession of the faith, without declining; for he is faithful that promised;

Beloved, giving all diligence to write to you concerning the common salvation, I was under a necessity to write 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 watch, and change your minds. If therefore you do not watch, I will come as a thief, and you shall not know at what hour I will come upon you.

The form

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law;

But thanks be to God that you were servants of sin, but obeyed from the heart the form of teaching in which you were instructed,

fornicators, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

If any one teaches differently, and consents not to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to piety,

Speak things which become sound teaching.

Which

and what you heard from me through many witnesses, these things commit to faithful men, who shall be competent to teach others also.

and what you learned and received and heard and knew in me, these things do; and the God of peace shall be with you.

In faith

having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all the saints,

and the grace of our Lord greatly abounded with the faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

General references

Speak things which become sound teaching.