I am always thanking Christ Jesus our Lord who has given me strength for it, for thinking me trustworthy and putting me into the ministry,

It is a saying to be trusted and deserves our fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; and I am the foremost of them.

and it was not Adam who was deceived, but it was the woman who was utterly deceived and fell into transgression.

He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, or else he may incur reproach and fall into the devil's trap.

For we bring nothing into the world and surely we can take nothing out of it.

But men who keep planning to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, hurtful desires which plunge people into destruction and ruin.