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who is an opposer, and exalteth himself above all that is called God and Worshipful; so that he also sitteth in the temple of God, as a God, and displayeth himself, as if he were God.

The salutation in the writing of my own hand, I Paul have written it; which is the token in all my epistles, so I write.

9 So also, that women [fn] in a chaste fashion of dress; and that their adorning be with modesty and chastity; not with curls, or with gold, or with pearls, or with splendid robes;

And so also the deacons should be pure, and not speak double, nor incline to much wine, nor love base gains;

So also should the wives be chaste and of vigilant minds; and they should be faithful in all things; and they should not be slanderers.

If any believing man or believing woman have widows, let them support them; and let them not be a burden on the church; so that there may be a sufficiency for such as are really widows.

So also good deeds are known: and those which are otherwise cannot be hid.

8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these withstand the truth: men whose mind is corrupted, and [fn] reprobates from the faith.

And so also the elder women, that they be in behavior as becometh the fear of God; and not to be slanderers; and not to be addicted to much wine; and to be inculcators of good things,

to be chaste and holy, and to take good care of their households, and to be obedient to their husbands; so that no one may reproach the word of God.

such as is sober and uncorrupt; and let no one despise it: so that he who riseth up against us, may be ashamed, seeing he can say nothing odious against us.

but let them manifest that their fidelity, in all respects, is good: so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Life-giver, in all things.

Faithful is the word: and in these things, I would have thee also establish them; so that they, who have believed in God, may be careful to cultivate good works: these are the things, which are good, and profitable to men.

so that I swore in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest.

So we see that they could not enter, because they believed not.

And, therefore, he is obliged as for the people, so also for himself, to present an offering for his sins.

So also the Messiah did not exalt himself to become a High Priest; but He [fn] who said to him, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

And so he was patient, and obtained the promise.

so that, by two things which change not, and in which God cannot lie, we, who have sought refuge in him, might have great consolation, and might hold fast the hope promised to us;

which is to us as an anchor, that retaineth our soul, so that it swerveth not; and it entereth into that within the veil,