This charge I commit to you, child Timothy, according to the prophecies going before in respect to you, that you may war with these the noble warfare;

But, if any widow has children or grand-children, let them learn first to show regard to their own family, and to make returns to their parents; for this is acceptable before God.

Those who sin reprove before all, that the rest also may have fear.

I solemnly charge you before God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

Some men's sins are openly manifest, going before to judgment; and some men also they follow after.

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called, and confessed a good confession before many witnesses.

I charge you before God who preserves alive all things, and Christ Jesus Who before Pontius Pilate testified a good confession,