Study Desk

So if anyone purifies himself from anything dishonorable, he will be a special instrument, set apart, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,

For among them are those who worm their way into households and deceive gullible women overwhelmed by sins and led astray by a variety of passions,

But they will not make further progress, for their foolishness will be clear to all, as was the foolishness of Jannes and Jambres.

But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you,

and you know that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness,

so that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear.

But as for you, exercise self-control in everything, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time for my departure is close.

There is reserved for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on that day, and not only to me, but to all those who have loved his appearing.

Only Luke is with me. Bring Mark with you, for he is useful to me in the ministry.

Watch out for him yourself because he strongly opposed our words.

Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness,

As an overseer of God’s household, he must be blameless: not arrogant, not hot-tempered, not an excessive drinker, not a bully, not greedy for money,

For there are many rebellious people, full of empty talk and deception, especially those from the circumcision party.

This testimony is true. For this reason, rebuke them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith

They claim to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.