a token of the righteous judgment of God, for your being counted worthy of the reign of God, for which also ye suffer,

since it is a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you -- trouble,

in flaming fire, giving vengeance to those not knowing God, and to those not obeying the good news of our Lord Jesus Christ;

for which also we do pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfil all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of the faith in power,

that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and Lord Jesus Christ.

who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God -- the day doth not come.

and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie,

And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,

to which He did call you through our good news, to the acquiring of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ;

and may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father, who did love us, and did give comfort age-during, and good hope in grace,

comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good word and work.

and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope,

to Timotheus -- genuine child in faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God our Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord,

nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --

And the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned,

and we have known that the law is good, if any one may use it lawfully;

according to the good news of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted.

and to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, is honour and glory -- to the ages of the ages! Amen.

This charge I commit to thee, child Timotheus, according to the prophesies that went before upon thee, that thou mayest war in them the good warfare,

having faith and a good conscience, which certain having thrust away, concerning the faith did make shipwreck,

for kings, and all who are in authority, that a quiet and peaceable life we may lead in all piety and gravity,

for this is right and acceptable before God our Saviour,

for one is God, one also is mediator of God and of men, the man Christ Jesus,

but -- which becometh women professing godly piety -- through good works.

(and if any one his own house how to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

for those who did minister well a good step to themselves do acquire, and much boldness in faith that is in Christ Jesus.

and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth thee to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God -- a pillar and foundation of the truth,

and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety -- God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!

forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

because every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,

for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession.

These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,

for for this we both labour and are reproached, because we hope on the living God, who is Saviour of all men -- especially of those believing.

and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

And she who is really a widow and desolate, hath hoped upon God, and doth remain in the supplications and in the prayers night and day,

in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

As many as are servants under a yoke, their own masters worthy of all honour let them reckon, that the name of God and the teaching may not be evil spoken of;

and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

I charge thee, before God, who is making all things alive, and of Christ Jesus, who did testify before Pontius Pilate the right profession,

Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, willing to communicate,

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according to a promise of life that is in Christ Jesus,

to Timotheus, beloved child: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord!

I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,

For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God that is in thee through the putting on of my hands,

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,

and was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,

the good thing committed guard thou through the Holy Spirit that is dwelling in us;

thou, therefore, suffer evil as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;

Remember Jesus Christ, raised out of the dead, of the seed of David, according to my good news,

in which I suffer evil -- unto bonds, as an evil-doer, but the word of God hath not been bound;

be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

sure, nevertheless, hath the foundation of God stood, having this seal, 'The Lord hath known those who are His,' and 'Let him depart from unrighteousness -- every one who is naming the name of Christ.'

if, then, any one may cleanse himself from these, he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified and profitable to the master -- to every good work having been prepared,

in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,

without natural affection, implacable, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, not lovers of those who are good,

traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness,

that the man of God may be fitted -- for every good work having been completed.

I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign --

And thou -- watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of the choice ones of God, and an acknowledging of truth that is according to piety,

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

(and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

to Titus -- true child according to a common faith: Grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour!

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

but a lover of strangers, a lover of good men, sober-minded, righteous, kind, self-controlled,

God they profess to know, and in the works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

concerning all things thyself showing a pattern of good works; in the teaching uncorruptedness, gravity, incorruptibility,

not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men,

waiting for the blessed hope and manifestation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;

Remind them to be subject to principalities and authorities, to obey rule, unto every good work to be ready,

and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear

Stedfast is the word; and concerning these things I counsel thee to affirm fully, that they may be thoughtful, to be leading in good works -- who have believed God; these are the good and profitable things to men,

and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ!

I give thanks to my God, always making mention of thee in my prayers,

that the fellowship of thy faith may become working in the full knowledge of every good thing that is in you toward Christ Jesus;

whom I did wish to retain to myself, that in thy behalf he might minister to me in the bonds of the good news,

and apart from thy mind I willed to do nothing, that as of necessity thy good deed may not be, but of willingness,

In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,

and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He saith, 'And let them bow before him -- all messengers of God;'

and unto the Son: 'Thy throne, O God, is to the age of the age; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy reign;

thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee -- God, thy God -- with oil of gladness above thy partners;'

God also bearing joint-witness both with signs and wonders, and manifold powers, and distributions of the Holy Spirit, according to His will.

and him who was made some little less than messengers we see -- Jesus -- because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.

and again, 'Behold I and the children that God did give to me.'

wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,

for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build is God,

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in the falling away from the living God,