timothy

⁷I have fought the good fight. I have completed the course. I have preserved the faith.

¹¹Instruct and teach these things. ¹²Let no one despise your youth, but be an example among the faithful in word, in behavior, in charity, in faith, in chastity. ¹³Until I arrive, attend to reading, to exhortation, and to doctrine. ¹⁴Do not be willing to neglect the grace that is within you, which was given to you through prophecy, with the imposition of the hands of the priesthood. ¹⁵Meditate on these things, so that your progress may be manifest to all. ¹⁶Pay attention to yourself and to doctrine. Pursue these things. For in doing so, you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.

¹¹Let a woman learn in silence with all subjection. ¹²For I do not permit a woman to teach, nor to be in authority over a man, but to be in silence. ¹³For Adam was formed first, then Eve. ¹⁴And Adam was not seduced, but the woman, having been seduced, was in transgression. ¹⁵Yet she will be saved by bearing children, if she has continued in faith and love, and in sanctification accompanied by self-restraint.

¹²Let no one despise your youth, but be an example among the faithful in word, in behavior, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

¹It is a faithful saying: if a man desires the episcopate, he desires a good work. ²Therefore, it is necessary for a bishop to be beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, gracious, chaste, hospitable, a teacher, ³not a drunkard, not combative but restrained, not quarrelsome, not covetous; ⁴but a man who leads his own house well, having children who are subordinate with all chastity. ⁵For if a man does not know how to lead his own house, how will he take care of the Church of God? ⁶He must not be a new convert, lest, being elated by pride, he may fall under the sentence of the devil.

¹It is a faithful saying: if a man desires the episcopate, he desires a good work. ²Therefore, it is necessary for a bishop to be beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, sober, prudent, gracious, chaste, hospitable, a teacher, ³not a drunkard, not combative but restrained, not quarrelsome, not covetous; ⁴but a man who leads his own house well, having children who are subordinate with all chastity. ⁵For if a man does not know how to lead his own house, how will he take care of the Church of God?

⁷For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.

¹⁶All Scripture, having been divinely inspired, is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in justice,

⁸Therefore, I want men to pray in every place, lifting up pure hands, without anger or dissension.

¹⁵Be solicitous in the task of presenting yourself before God as a proven and unashamed worker who has handled the Word of Truth correctly.

³For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

¹⁹Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, in order that I may be encouraged, when I know the things concerning you. ²⁰For I have no one else with such an agreeable mind, who, with sincere affection, is solicitous for you. ²¹For they all seek the things that are of themselves, not the things that are of Jesus Christ. ²²So know this evidence of him: that like a son with a father, so has he served with me in the Gospel. ²³Therefore, I hope to send him to you immediately, as soon as I see what will happen concerning me. ²⁴But I trust in the Lord that I myself will also return to you soon.