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5 For God is one; and the mediator between God and men is one, [fn] the man Jesus the Messiah;

but with good works, as becometh women who profess reverence for God.

For if he knoweth not how to guide his own house well, how can he guide the church of God.

but if I should delay, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God. ‡1 The pillar and the foundation of the truth,

and will forbid to marry; and will require abstinence from meats, which God hath created for use and for thankfulness, by them who believe and know the truth.

Because whatever is created by God is good; and there is nothing which should be rejected if it be received with thankfulness;

for it is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer.

For on this account, we toil and suffer reproach; because we trust in the living God, who is the life-giver of all men, especially of the believers.

But if a widow hath children, or grandchildren, let them first learn to show kindness to their own households, and to repay the obligations to their parents; for this is acceptable before God.

Now she who is truly a widow, and solitary, her hope is in God; and she persevereth in prayers, and in supplications, by night and by day:

I charge thee, before God, and our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and his elect angels, that thou observe these things; and let not your mind be preoccupied by any thing: and do nothing with a respect for persons.

Let them who are under the yoke of servitude, hold their masters in all honor; lest the name of God and his doctrine be reproached.

But if there be any one, who teacheth a different doctrine, and doth not accede to the salutary words of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and to the doctrine of the fear of God,

But great is our gain, which is the fear of God, with the use of our competence.

But thou, O man of God, flee from these things; and follow after righteousness, and rectitude, and faith, and love, and patience, and humility.

13 I charge thee, before God, who quickeneth all, and [fn] Jesus the Messiah who attested a good testimony before Pontius Pilate,

15 which God will, in due time make visible; [fn] the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords;

Charge the rich of this world, that they be not uplifted in their minds; and that they confide not in riches, in which is no security; but in the living God, who giveth us all things abundantly for our comfort:

PAUL, a legate of Jesus the Messiah by the pleasure of God, according to the promise of life which is in Jesus the Messiah;

to Timothy a beloved son; grace, and mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah.