in case I am delayed, to let you know how people ought to conduct themselves<n id="1" /> in the household of God, because it is<n id="2" /> the church of the living God, the support and bulwark of the truth.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves<n id="1" /> with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,<n id="2" />

For &#8220;physical exercise<n id="1" /> has some value, but godliness is valuable in every way. It holds promise for the present life and for the life to come.&#8221;

But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own,<n id="1" /> 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,<n id="1" /> especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.p>

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.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty<n id="1" /> toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them.<n id="2" /> For this is what pleases God.<n id="3" />

But those who have believing masters must not show them less respect<n id="1" /> because they are brothers. Instead they are to serve all the more, because those who benefit from their service are believers and dearly loved.<n id="2" />p><t /><p class="bodytext">Teach them and exhort them about these things.<n id="3" />