But the Lord is to be relied on, and he will give you strength and protect you from the evil one.

I did not eat anybody's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you.

And may the Lord of peace himself always give you peace in every way. The Lord be with you all.

The blessing of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by order of God our Savior and of Jesus Christ our hope,

to Timothy, my true child in faith; God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord bless you and be merciful to you, and give you peace.

The aim of your instruction must be love that springs from a pure heart and from a good conscience and from a sincere faith.

They would like to be teachers of law although they do not understand the words they use or the matters they insist upon.

To the eternal King, immortal and invisible, the one God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

like Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I turned over to Satan, to be taught not to blaspheme.

First of all, then, I urge that entreaties, prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings be offered for all men,

who wants all men to be saved and to come to know the truth.

Women for their part are to dress modestly and sensibly in proper clothes, not adorning themselves by braiding their hair or with gold or pearls or expensive clothing,

but, as is appropriate for women who profess to be religious, with good actions.

Women must listen quietly in church and be perfectly submissive.

But they will be saved through motherhood, if they continue to have faith and to be loving and holy, and sensible as well.

A superintendent must be a man above reproach, only once married, temperate, sensible, a man of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;

He must not be a new convert, or he may grow conceited and incur criticism from slanderous people.

He must also be a man of good standing with outsiders, or he may get into disgrace and be entrapped by the slanderers.

Assistants, in turn, must be serious, straightforward men, not addicted to wine or dishonest gain,

They should first be tested, and afterward, if there is no fault to be found with them, they can serve as assistants.

Their wives too must be serious, not gossips; they must be temperate, and perfectly trustworthy.

The assistants must be only once married, and manage their children and their households well.

No one can deny the profundity of the divine truth of our religion! "He was revealed in flesh, He was vindicated by the Spirit, He was seen by the angels, He was proclaimed among the heathen, He was believed in throughout the world, He was taken up into glory."

For everything God has created is good, and nothing need be refused, provided it is accepted with thanksgiving,

for then it is consecrated by prayer and the Scripture used in it.

If you point this out to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, living on the principles of the faith and the excellent teaching you have had.

Insist upon these points, so that people may be irreproachable.

No one under sixty years of age should be put on the list of widows. A widow must have been married but once,

Besides, as they go about from house to house they learn to be idle, and not only idle but gossips and busybodies, and talk of things they ought not to mention.

Elders who do their duties well should be considered as deserving twice as much as they get, particularly those who work at preaching and teaching.

Do not listen to an accusation made against an elder, unless it is supported by two or three witnesses.

I charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the chosen angels to observe these rules without any discrimination, and to be perfectly impartial.

Good deeds too are evident enough, or when they are not, they cannot be wholly concealed.

All who are under the yoke of slavery must treat their masters with the greatest respect, so that the name of God and our teaching may not be abused.

Those who have Christian masters must not think lightly of them because they are brothers; they must serve them all the more faithfully, because those who benefit by it are believers and hence dear to them. These are the things you must teach and preach.

If we have food and clothing we will be satisfied.

which will be brought about in his own time by the blessed, only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,

who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

Charge the rich of this world not to be arrogant, nor to set their hopes on such an uncertain thing as riches, but on God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

Charge them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, open-handed and generous,

Paul, by God's will an apostle of Christ Jesus in fulfilment of the promise of that life which is found in union with Christ Jesus,

to my dear child Timothy; God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord bless you and be merciful to you and give you peace.

So you must not be ashamed to testify to our Lord, nor be ashamed of me who am in prison for his sake, but join with me in suffering for the good news, through the power of God.

The Lord grant that he may be shown mercy by the Lord on that Day! And you know well enough how he helped me at Ephesus.

The things you learned from me before many witnesses you must commit to trustworthy men who will be capable of teaching others.

The farmer who does the work ought to be the first to have some of the produce.

If we are unfaithful, he will remain faithful, for he cannot be false to himself!"

Do your best to win God's approval as a workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, but rightly shapes the message of truth.

So if a man will cleanse himself from these things, he will be put to great uses, consecrated and used by the master of the house himself, and ready for any good use.

and a slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but treat everyone kindly; he must be persuasive and unresentful,

Understand this, that in the last days there are going to be hard times.

People will be selfish, avaricious, boastful, arrogant, abusive, undutiful, ungrateful, irreverent,

But everyone who wants to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

But you must stand by what you have learned and been convinced of, and remember from whom you learned it,

so that the man of God will be adequate, and equipped for any good work.

I charge you in the sight of God and Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom,

preach the message; be at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people, with perfect patience and willingness to teach.

But you must always be composed; do not shrink from hardship; do your work as a missionary, and your whole duty as a minister.

You too must be on your guard against him, for he vehemently opposed my teaching.

But the Lord stood by me, and gave me strength, so that I might make a full presentation of the message and let all the heathen hear it. So I was saved from the jaws of the lion.

The Lord will rescue me from any harm and bring me safely to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus wishes to be remembered to you, and so do Pudens, Linus, Claudia, and all the brothers.

The Lord be with your spirit. God bless you all.

For as God's overseer a superintendent must be irreproachable, not arrogant or quick-tempered or given to drink or pugnacious or addicted to dishonest gain,

standing by the message that can be relied on, just as he was taught it, so that he may be qualified both to encourage others with wholesome teaching and to show the error of those who oppose him.

They must be silenced, for such men upset whole households by teaching things they ought not to teach, for the sake of dishonest gain.

and not study Jewish fictions or commands given by men who reject the truth.

They profess to know God, but they disown him by what they do; they are detestable, disobedient men, worthless for any good purpose.

Teach the older men to be temperate, serious, and sensible??en of vigorous faith, love, and steadfastness.

Teach the older women, too, to be reverent in their behavior, and not to gossip or be slaves of drink, but to be teachers of what is right,

so as to train the younger women to be loving wives and mothers,

and to be sensible, pure-minded, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, so as not to bring reproach on God's message.

Urge the younger men, too, to be sensible.

and present a wholesome, unobjectionable message, so that your opponent may be put to shame at finding nothing bad to say about us.

or steal from them, but to show such perfect good faith as to do credit to the teaching about God our Savior, by everything they do.

Remind men to accept and obey the constituted authorities, to be ready for any useful service,

to abuse nobody, to be peaceable and reasonable, showing perfect gentleness to everyone.

he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,

so that we might be made upright through his mercy and become possessors of eternal life in fulfilment of our hope.

You may be sure that a man of that kind is corrupt and sinful, for his own actions condemn him.

All who are with me wish to be remembered to you. Remember me to all believers who love me. God bless you all.

I have been greatly pleased and encouraged over your love, for the hearts of God's people have been cheered, my brother, by you.

So although as a Christian I feel quite free to order you to do what ought to be done,

but I do not wish to do anything without your consent, so that your kindness might be voluntary, and not have the appearance of compulsion.

And get ready to entertain me too, for I hope that I shall be restored to you, in answer to your prayers.

Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner for Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you,

The blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirits.

It was little by little and in different ways that God spoke in old times to our forefathers through the prophets,

He is the reflection of God's glory, and the representation of his being, and bears up the universe by his mighty word. He has effected man's purification from sin, and has taken his seat on high at the right hand of God's Majesty,

showing himself to be as much greater than the angels as his title is superior to theirs.

But of the time when he is to bring his firstborn Son back to the world he says, "And let all God's angels bow before him."

For if the message delivered by angels proved to be authentic, and every violation or neglect of it led to a corresponding penalty,

how can we escape if we pay no attention to such a salvation as this? It was first proclaimed by the Lord himself, and it was guaranteed to us by those who heard him,

while God himself corroborated their testimony with signs, portents, and various wonders, and by impartations of the holy Spirit when he saw fit.

For it was not for angels that he destined the control of that world to be, that we are speaking of.

but we do see Jesus, who was "made for a little while inferior to angels, crowned with glory and honor" because he suffered death, so that by the favor of God he might taste the bitterness of death on behalf of every human being.

Therefore since these children referred to have the same mortal nature, Jesus also shared it, like them, in order that by his death he might dethrone the lord of death, the devil,

And so he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might prove a compassionate high priest as well as one faithful in his service to God, in order to forgive the people's sins.

Do not harden your hearts as your forefathers provoked me by doing, As in that time of trial in the desert,