because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us severely. They are displeasing to God and are opposed to all people,

Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

With flaming fire he will mete out punishment on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

to Timothy, my genuine child in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord!

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, I solemnly charge you to carry out these commands without prejudice or favoritism of any kind.

I charge you before God who gives life to all things and Christ Jesus who made his good confession before Pontius Pilate,

Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.

I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is going to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:

But now in his own time he has made his message evident through the preaching I was entrusted with according to the command of God our Savior.

To Titus, my genuine son in a common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior!

They profess to know God but with their deeds they deny him, since they are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

to be self-controlled, pure, fulfilling their duties at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the message of God may not be discredited.

not pilfering, but showing all good faith, in order to bring credit to the teaching of God our Savior in everything.

but of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and a righteous scepter is the scepter of your kingdom.

while God confirmed their witness with signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

Again he says, “I will be confident in him,” and again, “Here I am, with the children God has given me.”

For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”