Study Desk

Prescribe and teach these things.

These things command and teach.

Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Until I come, give your attention to the public reading, to exhortation, and teaching.

Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

Do not neglect the spiritual gift within you, which was granted to you through words of prophecy with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.

Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that your progress will be evident to all.

Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

Pay close attention to yourself and to the teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.