¹³ Thus you nullify the word of God^(A) by your tradition^(B) that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

²³ If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.”^(A)

¹⁸ Therefore consider carefully how you listen. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they think they have will be taken from them.”^(A)

¹³ What you heard from me,^(A) keep^(B) as the pattern^(C) of sound teaching,^(D) with faith and love in Christ Jesus.^{(E) 14} Guard^(F) the good deposit that was entrusted to you—guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit who lives in us.^(G)

¹⁴ But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,^(A)

²⁰ Timothy, guard what has been entrusted^(A) to your care. Turn away from godless chatter^(B) and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called knowledge,

⁶ If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters,^[a] you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the truths of the faith^(A) and of the good teaching that you have followed.^(B)

Timothy Charged to Oppose False Teachers

³ As I urged you when I went into Macedonia,^(A) stay there in Ephesus^(B) so that you may command certain people not to teach false doctrines^(C) any longer

¹¹ that conforms to the gospel concerning the glory of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.^(A)