Study Desk

For this reason I say to you, Let that grace of God which is in you, given to you by my hands, have living power.

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

Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God;

In which I put up with the hardest conditions, even prison chains, like one who has done a crime; but the word of God is not in chains.

Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.

Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,

And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.

False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;

Yes, and all whose purpose is to be living in the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, will be cruelly attacked.

Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness:

So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.

I give you orders, before God and Christ Jesus, who will be the judge of the living and the dead, and by his revelation and his kingdom;

Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in agreement with the faith of the saints of God and the full knowledge of what is true in harmony with religion,

In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;

Who, in his time, made clear his word in the good news, of which, by the order of God our Saviour, I became a preacher;

To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.

They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.

To be wise in mind, clean in heart, kind; working in their houses, living under the authority of their husbands; so that no evil may be said of the word of God.

Not taking what is not theirs, but giving clear signs of their good faith, in all things doing credit to the teaching of God our Saviour.

For the grace of God has come, giving salvation to all men,