1 Timothy 6:11–21

¹¹and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness; ¹²be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

¹³I charge thee, before God, who is making all things alive, and of Christ Jesus, who did testify before Pontius Pilate the right profession, ¹⁴that thou keep the command unspotted, unblameable, till the manifestation of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵which in His own times He shall shew—the blessed and only potentate, the King of the kings and Lord of the lords, ¹⁶who only is having immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no one of men did see, nor is able to see, to whom is honour and might age-during! Amen. ¹⁷Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment;— ¹⁸to do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to impart, willing to communicate, ¹⁹treasuring up to themselves a right foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on the life age-during. ²⁰O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge, ²¹which certain professing—concerning the faith did swerve; the grace is with you. Amen.

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