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| 1. | Let as many bondmen as are under yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the teaching be not blasphemed. |
| 2. | And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren; but let them the rather serve them with subjection, because they are faithful and beloved, who profit by the good and ready service rendered. These things teach and exhort. |
| 3. | If any one teach differently, and do not accede to sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching which is according to piety, |
| 4. | he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, out of which arise envy, strife, injurious words, evil suspicions, |
| 5. | constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding gain to be the end of piety. |
| 6. | But piety with contentment is great gain. |
| 7. | For we have brought nothing into the world: it is manifest that neither can we carry anything out. |
| 8. | But having sustenance and covering, we will be content with these. |
| 9. | But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and ruin. |
| 10. | For the love of money is the root of every evil; which some having aspired after, have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves with many sorrows. |
| 11. | But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness of spirit. |
| 12. | Strive earnestly in the good conflict of faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses. |
| 13. | I enjoin thee before God who preserves all things in life, and Christ Jesus who witnessed before Pontius Pilate the good confession, |
| 14. | that thou keep the commandment spotless, irreproachable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ; |
| 15. | which in its own time the blessed and only Ruler shall shew, the King of those that reign, and Lord of those that exercise lordship; |
| 16. | who only has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor is able to see; to whom be honour and eternal might. Amen. |
| 17. | Enjoin on those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust on the uncertainty of riches; but in the God who affords us all things richly for our enjoyment; |
| 18. | to do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal in distributing, disposed to communicate of their substance, |
| 19. | laying by for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of what is really life. |
| 20. | O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge, |
| 21. | of which some having made profession, have missed the faith. Grace be with thee. |