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Conclusion

20 O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid[a] the profane chatter and absurdities[b] of so-called “knowledge.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Timothy 6:20 tn Grk “avoiding.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
  2. 1 Timothy 6:20 tn Or “contradictions.”
  3. 1 Timothy 6:20 tn Grk “the falsely named knowledge.”

14 Protect that good thing[a] entrusted to you, through the Holy Spirit who lives within us.

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  1. 2 Timothy 1:14 sn That good thing (Grk “the good deposit”) refers to the truth of the gospel committed to Timothy (cf. 1 Tim 6:20).