2 Timothy 1:14

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2 Timothy 1:14

That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.

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and what you heard me deliver in the presence of many, intrust to such persons of integrity as are qualified to instruct others

if therefore your fidelity has not appear'd in the use of these transitory enjoyments, how can you be trusted with what is more lasting?

much every way: chiefly, because they were intrusted with the oracles of God.

now if I do this willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, it is a dispensation of trust which must be discharged.

for it is God that has reconciled the world to himself, by Jesus Christ, by not imputing their sins to them; and hath committed to us the gospel of reconciliation.

on the contrary, when they perceived that I had the province of preaching the gospel to the Gentiles, as Peter had that of preaching it to the Jews,

Jesus, who is called Justus, salutes you: these are the only Jews who by assisting me in preaching the gospel,

with the salutary doctrine of the gospel of immortality, which the blessed God committed to my trust.

O Timothy, keep what is deposited in your care, avoiding the prophane empty declamations and objections of a spurious science, which some have profess'd,

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for if you lead a sensual life, you will be miserable: but if through the spirit you mortify the affections of corrupted nature, you will be happy.

do not drink to excess, for that tends to dissoluteness, but be regal'd with spiritual entertainments:

don't abuse the gifts of the spirit.

You that have purified your souls by the holy spirit, in obeying the gospel, which obliges you to an undisguised benevolence, let your hearts be mutually affected with the most disinterested ardour;

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even the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees nor knows him: but ye shall know him, for he shall dwell with you, and shall be in you.

for if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall likewise restore your mortal bodies to life, by his spirit that dwelleth in you.

Don't you know, that you are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwells in you?

what! know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the holy spirit, which is in you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

Wherefore, henceforth I have no regard to any man for his external appearance: for tho' I formerly look'd for worldly grandeur in the Messiah, yet now I see things in another light.

who by his spirit has likewise made you a part of this divine mansion.