Only demean yourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Christ; that, whether coming and seeing you, or being absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye are standing fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the Gospel;

but prove all things, hold fast that which is good.

holding fast the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able both to exhort in the healthful doctrine, and to convict those who contradict.

but Christ as a Son over His own house; Whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

Having, therefore, a great High Priest, Who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession;

let us hold fast the confession of the hope without wavering (for faithful is He Who promised);

Beloved, while giving all diligence to write to you of the common salvation, I was constrained to write to you, exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once for all delivered to the saints.

nevertheless, that which ye have, hold fast till I come.

Remember, therefore, how you have received, and did hear; and keep it, and repent. 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 in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth;

But thanks be to God that, though ye were slaves of sin, ye did, however, obey from the heart that form of teaching unto which ye were delivered;

for fornicators, for sodomites, for man-stealers, for liars, for false swearers; and whatever else is contrary to healthful teaching;

If anyone teaches otherwise, and consents not to healthful words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching according to godliness,

But speak the things which become the healthful teaching;

Which

And the things which you heard from me, through many witnesses, these commit to faithful men, who will be competent to teach others also.

The things also, which ye learned, and received, and heard, and saw in me, these practice; and the God of peace will be with you.

In faith

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

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

General references

But speak the things which become the healthful teaching;