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Timothy Charged to Oppose False Teachers
As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain people not to teach false doctrines any longer
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or to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. Such things promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God’s work—which is by faith.
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Instructions on Worship
I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people—
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who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
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who gave himself as a ransom for all people. This has now been witnessed to at the proper time.
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I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
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But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.
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He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.
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if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
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The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.
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They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth.
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If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed.
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That is why we labor and strive, because we have put our hope in the living God, who is the Savior of all people, and especially of those who believe.
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Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.
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Give the people these instructions, so that no one may be open to blame.
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and is well known for her good deeds, such as bringing up children, showing hospitality, washing the feet of the Lord’s people, helping those in trouble and devoting herself to all kinds of good deeds.
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Thus they bring judgment on themselves, because they have broken their first pledge.
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and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain.
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But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.
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Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
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For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
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which God will bring about in his own time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords,
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Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share.
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In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.
