Study Desk

But we ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers dearly loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as first fruits for salvation by the sanctification of the Spirit and faith in the truth,

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope by grace,

Now may the Lord direct your hearts toward the love of God and toward the patient endurance of Christ.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,

to Timothy, my true child in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God that I was entrusted with.

Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, to the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

This is good and acceptable before God our Savior,

For there is one God and one mediator between God and human beings, the man Christ Jesus,

(but if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?),

But if I am delayed, I am writing in order that you may know how one must conduct oneself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and mainstay of the truth.

who forbid marrying and insist on abstaining from foods that God created for sharing in with thankfulness by those who believe and who know the truth,

because everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thankfulness,

for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.

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.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn to show profound respect for their own household first, and to pay back recompense to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

But the widow who is one truly, and is left alone, has put her hope in God and continues in her petitions and prayers night and day.

I testify solemnly before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing according to partiality.

All those who are under the yoke as slaves must regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, lest the name of God and the teaching be slandered.

But you, O man of God, flee from these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patient endurance, gentleness.