in case I am delayed, to let you know how people ought to conduct themselves in the household of God, because it is the church of the living God, the support and bulwark of the truth.

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,

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.”

But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.

But if someone does not provide for his own, especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these people – who have warped minds and are disqualified in the faith – also oppose the truth.

You, however, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, my faith, my patience, my love, my endurance,

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.

All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

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

However, without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your good deed would not be out of compulsion, but from your own willingness.

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

and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out.”

But to which of the angels has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”?

Instead someone testified somewhere: “What is man that you think of him or the son of man that you care for him?

“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

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.

But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.