Study Desk

I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with a pure conscience, that I continually remember thee in my prayers, by night and by day:

Wherefore I remind thee, that thou excite the gift of God, that is in thee by the imposition of my hands.

For God hath not given us a spirit of fear, but of energy, and of love, and of instruction.

Therefore be not thou ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure evils in connection with the Gospel, through the power of God;

in which I suffer evils unto bonds, as if an evil-doer: but the word of God is not in bonds.

And study to present thyself before God, perfectly, a laborer who is not ashamed, one who correctly announceth the word of truth.

But the firm foundation of God standeth; and it hath this seal, The Lord knoweth them who are his: and, Let every one who invoketh the name of our Lord, stand aloof from iniquity.

that with mildness he may enlighten those who dispute against him, if perhaps God may give them repentance, and they may acknowledge the truth,

treacherous, rash, inflated, attached to pleasure more than to the love of God,

having a form of respect for God, but wide from the power of God. Them who are such, repel from thee.

And likewise all, who choose to live in the fear of God, in Jesus the Messiah, will be persecuted.

that the man of God may become perfect, and complete for every good work.

I charge thee, before God, and our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who is to judge the living and the dead, at the manifestation of his kingdom,

PAUL, a servant of God, and a legate of Jesus the Messiah; according to the faith of the elect of God, and the knowledge of the truth which is in the fear of God,

concerning the hope of eternal life, which the veracious God promised before the times of the world;

and in due time he hath manifested his word, by means of our announcement, which was confided to me by the command of God our Life-giver;

to Titus, a real son after the common faith: Grace and peace from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus the Messiah, our Life-giver.

For an elder ought to be blameless, as the steward of God; and not be self-willed, nor irascible, nor excessive in wine, nor with hands swift to strike, nor a lover of base gains.

And they profess that they know God, but in their works they deny him; and they are odious, and disobedient, and to every good work reprobates.

And so also the elder women, that they be in behavior as becometh the fear of God; and not to be slanderers; and not to be addicted to much wine; and to be inculcators of good things,