I beg you not to make me too courageous in that confidence in which I think to take a daring stand against some people who try to think that I am acting from the lowest human motives.

and that when I come back my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over some of those who formerly have committed shocking sins, and have not repented for them -- their impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality, which once they practiced.

The man who used to steal must now stop stealing; rather, he must keep on working and toiling with his own hands at some honest vocation, so as to have something to contribute to the needy.

Some, indeed, are actually preaching Christ because they are moved by jealousy and partisanship, but others are doing so from the motive of good will;

in the hope of attaining, in some measure, the resurrection that lifts me out from among the dead.

But we are informed that some among you are living as shirkers, mere busybodies, instead of busy at work.

Some people have stepped aside from these things and turned to fruitless talking.

by keeping your hold on faith and a good conscience; for some have thrust the latter aside and so have made shipwreck of their faith.

Now the Spirit distinctly declares that in later times some will turn away from the faith, because they continuously give their attention to deceiving spirits and the things that demons teach

Physical training, indeed, is of some service, but religion is of service for everything, for it contains a promise for the present life as well as the future.

For some widows have already turned aside to follow Satan.

Some men's sins are very evident and clearly lead them on to judgment, but the sins of others lag behind.

For the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil, and some men in reaching after riches have wandered from the faith and pierced their hearts with many a pang.