Instruction about slaves
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📚As many slaves as are still under the yoke must count their masters worthy of complete respect, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed✭. 2 📚✭And those who have believing masters, should not regard them lightly because they are brethren✭, but rather serve them, because those who are benefitted are believers and loved✭. Teach and encourage these things.Instruction about false teachers
3 📚If any man teaches otherwise✭, and does not consent to wholesome words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teaching that is according to godliness, 4 📚he is proud, understanding nothing, but has a morbid interest✭ in debates and quarrels about words, from which come envy, strife, abusive language, evil conjectures, 5 📚and empty disputations from men of corrupt minds✭ who are destitute of the truth✭ and suppose that financial gain is godliness. Keep away from such people.
Contentment with what one has
6 📚✭But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 📚✭For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 📚✭So having food and clothing let us be content with that.
The danger of loving money
9 📚✭But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful desires which drown men in destruction and ruin. 10 📚✭For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. Some while coveting it have gone astray from the faith✭, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows✭.
What believers should pursue
11 📚✭But you, O man of God, flee from these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, and meekness.
Fighting the good fight of faith
12 📚Fight the good fight✭ of faith, lay hold✭ on eternal life✭, to which also you were called, and have made a good confession✭ in the presence of many witnesses. 13 📚I charge you in the sight of God who gives life✭ to all things, and in the presence of Christ Jesus who, standing before Pontius Pilate✭, gave witness in a good confession, 14 📚that you keep this command✭ without spot, blamelessly, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ✭,
The King of kings and Lord of lords
15 📚which in his own time✭ he will reveal. He is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 📚who alone has immortality, dwelling in the light✭ which no man can approach, whom no man has seen or can see. To him be eternal honour and power. Amen.
Commands for the rich
17 📚✭Command those who are rich in this world not to be arrogant, and not to trust in uncertain riches✭, but in the living God, who gives us richly✭ all things to enjoy✭. 18 📚Command them to do good, and to be rich in good deeds✭, ready to give, willing to share✭, 19 📚and so storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Things for Timothy to avoid