Beth

²² So ^(A)flee ^(B)youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with ^(C)those who call on the Lord ^(D)from a pure heart.

²¹ Therefore ^(A)put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with ^(B)meekness the implanted word, ^(C)which is able to save your souls.

²² But be ^(D)doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. ²⁴ For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. ²⁵ But the one who looks into the perfect law, ^(E)the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, ^(F)he will be blessed in his doing.

¹⁵ and how ^(A)from childhood you have been acquainted with ^(B)the sacred writings, ^(C)which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. ^16 (D)All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, ¹⁷ that ^(E)the man of God^[a] may be complete, ^(F)equipped ^(G)for every good work.

⁷ Only be strong and ^(A)very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law ^(B)that Moses my servant commanded you. ^(C)Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success^[a] wherever you go.

⁴ and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, ⁵ to be self-controlled, ^(A)pure, ^(B)working at home, kind, and ^(C)submissive to their own husbands, ^(D)that the word of God may not be reviled. ⁶ Likewise, urge ^(E)the younger men to be self-controlled.

Book One

The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked