The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

who desires all people to be saved and come to full knowledge of the truth.

These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of that which is truly life.