and so incur judgment for breaking their former pledge.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">But we know that the law is good if someone uses it legitimately,

For every creation of God is good and no food<n id="1" /> is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.

For we have brought nothing into this world and so<n id="1" /> we cannot take a single thing out either.

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" />

even though I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor, and an arrogant<n id="1" /> man. But I was treated with mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief,

realizing that law<n id="1" /> is not intended for a righteous person, but for lawless and rebellious people, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers,

<p class="bodytext">I am grateful to the one who has strengthened me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he considered me faithful in putting me into ministry,

This saying<n id="1" /> is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance: &#8220;Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners&#8221; &#8211; and I am the worst of them!<n id="2" />

<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" />

In fact this is why<n id="1" /> we work hard and struggle,<n id="2" /> because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all people,<n id="3" /> especially of believers.p>