to bring anything out. But having sustenance and coverings, with these things we shall be sufficed (vv. 3–8). Paul warns Timothy by pointing out the examples of false teachers whose actions may be accounted for by wrong motives. Modern indifference to doctrine is not an apostolic trait. Paul exhibits no toleration whatever toward those who deviate from the well-defined standard of truth, the gospel message (see 1:3–20,
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