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for the scripture says, Thou shalt not muzzle an ox that treadeth out corn, and, The workman [is] worthy of his hire.

For we have brought nothing into the world: [it is] [manifest] that neither can we carry anything out.

For the love of money is [the] root of every evil; which some having aspired after, have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

Enjoin on those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust on the uncertainty of riches; but in the God who affords us all things richly for [our] enjoyment;

laying by for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of [what is] really life.

For which cause I put thee in mind to rekindle the gift of God which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of wise discretion.

For which cause also I suffer these things; but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep for that day the deposit I have entrusted to him.

The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he has often refreshed me, and has not been ashamed of my chain;

Think of what I say, for the Lord will give thee understanding in all things.

For this cause I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that *they* also may obtain the salvation which [is] in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

The word [is] faithful; for if we have died together with [him], we shall also live together;

if we are unfaithful, *he* abides faithful, for he cannot deny himself.

Of these things put in remembrance, testifying earnestly before the Lord not to have disputes of words, profitable for nothing, to the subversion of the hearers.

But profane, vain babblings shun, for they will advance to greater impiety,

If therefore one shall have purified himself from these, [in separating himself from them], he shall be a vessel to honour, sanctified, serviceable to the Master, prepared for every good work.

and that they may awake up out of the snare of the devil, [who are] taken by him, for *his* will.

for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,

without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good,

For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,