For this cause, I sent to you Timothy, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who will bring to your remembrance my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every assembly.

But this I say by way of permission, not of command.

Now these things were happening to them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, unto whom the ends of the ages have come.

A temptation has not taken you, except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, Who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

But desire earnestly the greater gifts; and a still more excellent way I show you.