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But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to be godly to their own house and to make a return payment to their forebears, for this is good and pleasing before God.

But honor the one being the true widow, even having been left alone, who has set her hope on God and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

I solemnly witness before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels, that you should guard these things without prejudice, doing nothing by way of partiality.

Let as many as are slaves under a yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name and teaching of God may not be blasphemed.

But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness.

I charge you before God, He making all things alive, and Christ Jesus, the One witnessing the good confession to Pontius Pilate,

Charge the rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to set hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, the One offering to us richly all things for enjoyment;

Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,

to my beloved child Timothy: Grace, mercy, peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

I have thanks to God, whom I worship from my forebears in a pure conscience, how unceasingly I have remembrance concerning you in my petitions night and day,

For which cause I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

For God did not give a spirit of cowardice to us, but of power and of love and of self-control.

Then do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me, His prisoner. But suffer hardship with the gospel, according to the power of God,

in which I suffer ill as an evildoer, unto bonds; but the Word of God has not been bound.

Give diligence to present yourself approved to God, a workman unashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.

However, the foundation of God stands firm, having this seal, "The Lord knew the ones being His;" see Num. 16:5, 7 , also, Let everyone naming the name of Christ depart from unrighteousness.

in meekness teaching those who have opposed, if perhaps God may give them repentance for a full knowledge of the truth,

betrayers, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

so that the man of God may be perfected, being fully furnished for every good work.