⁶These things proposing to the brethren, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished up in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which thou hast attained unto.

⁷But avoid foolish and old wives fables: and exercise thyself unto godliness.

⁸For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

⁹A faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.

¹⁰For therefore we labour and are reviled, because we hope in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, especially of the faithful.

¹¹These things command and teach:

¹²Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful, in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

¹³Till I come, attend unto reading, to exhortation and to doctrine.

¹⁴Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the priesthood.

¹⁵Meditate upon these things, be wholly in these things: that thy profiting may be manifest to all.

¹⁶Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.

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