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always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

But they will not advance much further. For just like Jannes and Jambres, their folly will be plain to everyone.

But as for you, continue in the things you have learned and firmly believed, since you know from whom you have learned them.

For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.

But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

From now on the crown of righteousness is laid up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day-and not only to me, but to all who crave His appearing.

At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, having children who are believers and are not open to accusation of indiscretion or insubordination.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their actions. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

But as for you, speak the things that are consistent with sound doctrine.

Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good.

not stealing from them, but showing all good faith, so that in every respect they will adorn the teaching about God our Savior.

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared,

He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless.

Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.

But I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness will not be out of compulsion, but by your own free will.

no longer as a slave, but better than a slave, as a beloved brother. He is especially beloved to me, but even more so to you, both in person and in the Lord.