Study Desk

For the training of the body is somewhat profitable, but godliness is profitable for everything, because it holds promise for the present life and for the life to come.

For to this end we labor and suffer reproach, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

thus incurring condemnation because they have broken their former pledge.

And those who have believing masters must not look down on them because they are brothers, but rather they must serve, because those who benefit by their service are believers and dearly loved. Teach and encourage these things.

For the love of money is a root of all evil, by which some, because they desire it, have gone astray from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains.

for which reason also I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know in whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted until that day.

May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he refreshed me many times, and was not ashamed of my imprisonment,

Because of this, I endure all things for the sake of the chosen, in order that they also may obtain salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

But avoid foolish and uninformed controversies, because you know that they produce quarrels.

But you continue in the things which you have learned and are convinced of, because you know from whom you learned them,

For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound teaching, but in accordance with their own desires, they will accumulate for themselves teachers, because they have an insatiable curiosity,

For Demas deserted me, because he loved the present age, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia; Titus went to Dalmatia.

Luke alone is with me. Take along Mark and bring him with you, because he is useful to me for ministry.

against whom you also be on guard, because he vehemently opposed our words.

Erastus remained in Corinth, but Trophimus I left behind in Miletus because he was sick.

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny him, because they are detestable and disobedient, and unfit for every good deed.

a sound message beyond reproach, in order that an opponent may be put to shame, because he has nothing bad to say concerning us.

he saved us, not by deeds of righteousness that we have done, but because of his mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit,

because I hear about your love and faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and for all the saints.

For I have great joy and encouragement from your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.