he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,

For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.

Compete well for the faith and lay hold of that eternal life you were called for and made your good confession for in the presence of many witnesses.

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

He alone possesses immortality and lives in unapproachable light, whom no human has ever seen or is able to see. To him be honor and eternal power! Amen.

but now made visible through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus. He has broken the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel!

May the Lord grant mercy to the family of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my imprisonment.

May the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that day! And you know very well all the ways he served me in Ephesus.

So I endure all things for the sake of those chosen by God, that they too may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus and its eternal glory.

For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

But they will not go much further, for their foolishness will be obvious to everyone, just like it was with Jannes and Jambres.

and how from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

For Demas deserted me, since he loved the present age, and he went to Thessalonica. Crescens went to Galatia and Titus to Dalmatia.

The reason I left you in Crete was to set in order the remaining matters and to appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.

He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.

he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

I have had great joy and encouragement because of your love, for the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

I, Paul, have written this letter with my own hand: I will repay it. I could also mention that you owe me your very self.

After God spoke long ago in various portions and in various ways to our ancestors through the prophets,

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