Study Desk

In every church service I want the men to pray, men who are dedicated to God and can lift up their hands in prayer without anger or argument.

For if a man does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of the church of God?

But if I delay, this letter will let you know how we should conduct ourselves in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.

Such people teach that it is wrong to marry and to eat certain foods. But God created those foods to be eaten, after a prayer of thanks, by those who are believers and have come to know the truth.

Everything that God has created is good; nothing is to be rejected, but everything is to be received with a prayer of thanks,

because the word of God and the prayer make it acceptable to God.

We struggle and work hard, because we have placed our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all and especially of those who believe.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should learn first to carry out their religious duties toward their own family and in this way repay their parents and grandparents, because that is what pleases God.

A widow who is all alone, with no one to take care of her, has placed her hope in God and continues to pray and ask him for his help night and day.

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the holy angels I solemnly call upon you to obey these instructions without showing any prejudice or favor to anyone in anything you do.

Those who are slaves must consider their masters worthy of all respect, so that no one will speak evil of the name of God and of our teaching.

But you, man of God, avoid all these things. Strive for righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness.

Run your best in the race of faith, and win eternal life for yourself; for it was to this life that God called you when you firmly professed your faith before many witnesses.

Before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who firmly professed his faith before Pontius Pilate, I command you

His appearing will be brought about at the right time by God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and the Lord of lords.

Command those who are rich in the things of this life not to be proud, but to place their hope, not in such an uncertain thing as riches, but in God, who generously gives us everything for our enjoyment.

To Timothy, my dear son: May God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord give you grace, mercy, and peace.

I give thanks to God, whom I serve with a clear conscience, as my ancestors did. I thank him as I remember you always in my prayers night and day.

For this reason I remind you to keep alive the gift that God gave you when I laid my hands on you.

For the Spirit that God has given us does not make us timid; instead, his Spirit fills us with power, love, and self-control.