I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that my situation has actually turned out to advance the gospel:

So I want the men to pray in every place, lifting up holy hands without anger or dispute.

So I want younger women to marry, raise children, and manage a household, in order to give the adversary no opportunity to vilify us.

but since it concerns points of disagreement about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I will not be a judge of these things!”

Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.

This saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on such truths, so that those who have placed their faith in God may be intent on engaging in good works. These things are good and beneficial for all people.