For “physical exercise has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way. It holds promise for the present life and for the life to come.”

In fact this is why we work hard and struggle, because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of believers.

Be conscientious about how you live and what you teach. Persevere in this, because by doing so you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

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.

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.

For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things.

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

Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, because he is a great help to me in ministry.

For the overseer must be blameless as one entrusted with God’s work, not arrogant, not prone to anger, not a drunkard, not violent, not greedy for gain.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

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

For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, and so he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters,

For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!

For we had good news proclaimed to us just as they did. But the message they heard did them no good, since they did not join in with those who heard it in faith.

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

For the one who enters God’s rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.

For every high priest is taken from among the people and appointed to represent them before God, to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.

For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.