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12 Let no one have contempt for your youth,[a] but set an example for those who believe, in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.(A) 13 Until I arrive, attend to the reading,[b] exhortation, and teaching.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:12 Youth: some commentators find this reference a sign of pseudepigraphy. Timothy had joined Paul as a missionary already in A.D. 49, some fifteen years before the earliest supposed date of composition.
  2. 4:13 Reading: the Greek word refers to private or public reading. Here, it probably designates the public reading of scripture in the Christian assembly.

12 Don’t let anyone look down on you(A) because you are young, but set an example(B) for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith(C) and in purity. 13 Until I come,(D) devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture,(E) to preaching and to teaching.

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