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Honor Masters

¹Let as many ⚓bondservants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and His doctrine may not be blasphemed. ²And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brethren, but rather serve them because those who are benefited are believers and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

Error and Greed

³If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to ⚓wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⚓and to the doctrine which accords with godliness, ⁴he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, ⁵useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. From ⚓such withdraw yourself.
⁶Now godliness with ⚓contentment is great gain. ⁷For we brought nothing into this world, and it is ⚓certain we can carry nothing out. ⁸And having food and clothing, with these we shall be ⚓content. ⁹But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition. ¹⁰For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

The Good Confession

¹¹But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. ¹²Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. ¹³I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus ⚓who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate, ¹⁴that you keep this commandment without spot, blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ’s appearing, ¹⁵which He will manifest in His own time, He who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords, ¹⁶who alone has immortality, dwelling in ⚓unapproachable light, ⚓whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.

Instructions to the Rich

¹⁷Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain ⚓riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things ⚓to enjoy. ¹⁸Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, ¹⁹⚓storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

Guard the Faith

²⁰O Timothy! ⚓Guard what was committed to your trust, ⚓avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge— ²¹by professing it some have strayed concerning the faith.
Grace be with you. Amen.

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¹Cia txhua tus uas nyob hauv tus qab quab uas ua qhev suav tias lawv tus lospav yog tus uas tsim nyog hwm kawg, kom Vajtswv lub npe thiab tej lus qhia thiaj tsis raug saib tsis taus. ²Cov qhev uas tus lospav yog ib tug ntseeg, kuj tsis txhob saib tsis taus tus lospav rau qhov ob tog puavleej yog kwvtij lawm. Tiamsis lawv yuav tsum yimhuab ua haujlwm zoo rau tus lospav vim tias tus lospav uas tau txiaj ntsig ntawm cov tub qhe ntawd yog tus uas ntseeg thiab ntxim hlub. Cia li qhuab qhia thiab ntuas zaj no.

Kev nplua nuj

³Yog leejtwg qhia txawv tej no thiab tsis pom zoo raws li tej lus raug cai uas peb tus Tswv Yexus Khetos qhia thiab tej lus qhia uas hum Vajtswv txojkev, ⁴kuj yog nws khav theeb thiab tsis paub dabtsi li. Nws nyiam sib cav sib ceg dhau cai thiab sib cam rau tej nyuag lo lus uas ua rau muaj kev sib khib, sib faib, xyav luag moo, pheej xav tias luag phem, ⁵thiab ua rau cov neeg uas xav phem thiab tsis muaj txoj tseeb kiag li sib cam. Lawv xav tias qhov uas hwm Vajtswv yog ncauj kev nrhiav tshaj thawj. ⁶Qhov uas hwm Vajtswv thiab tau kev siab tus kuj yog tau tshaj thawj ntau kawg, ⁷vim peb tsis tau coj ib yam dabtsi los rau hauv lub ntiajteb, thiab peb yuav coj tsis tau ib yam dabtsi tawm hauv lub ntiajteb mus li thiab. ⁸Tiamsis yog peb muaj noj muaj hnav peb yuav txaus siab rau tej ntawd. ⁹Cov uas xav nplua nuj kuj poob rau hauv txojkev dag ntxias thiab mag rooj hlua thiab poob rau hauv txojkev ntshaw ntau yam uas ruam thiab ua kom raug ceeblaj, uas yuav coj mus txog kev liamsim thiab kev puam tsuaj. ¹⁰Vim tias qhov uas nyiam nyiaj txiag yog txhua yam kev phem tus cag. Qhov uas ntshaw nyiaj txiag no ua rau qee leej yuam kev ntawm txojkev ntseeg thiab lawv lub siab raug ntau yam kev txom nyem chob.

Povlauj qhia Timaute

¹¹Koj uas yog Vajtswv li neeg, cia li khiav kom dhau tej no. Cia li nrhiav txojkev ncaj ncees, kev hwm Vajtswv, kev ntseeg, kev hlub, kev ua siab ntev thev, thiab kev zam xeeb. ¹²Cia li tawm tsam kawg nkaus rau hauv txojkev ntseeg lub tshav rog. Cia li tuav rawv txojsia ib txhis uas Vajtswv hu koj los txais rau thaum koj yeem lees tib zoo tab meeg ntau leej timkhawv. ¹³Kuv nkaw lus rau koj tab meeg Vajtswv uas pub txojsia rau txhua yam thiab tab meeg Yexus Khetos uas ua timkhawv lees tib zoo rau ntawm Phauthi‑au Philaj lub xubntiag, ¹⁴kom koj tuav rawv tej lus nkaw no huvsi tsis txhob ua ib qho phem thiab tsis muaj chaw thuam li mus txog thaum peb tus Tswv Yexus Khetos rov los.⚓ ¹⁵Vajtswv yuav ua kom tshwm los rau lub sijhawm uas teem cia, yog Vajtswv uas tsim nyog qhuas, thiab yog tib tug uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus, yog ib tsoom vajntxwv tus Vajntxwv thiab yog cov uas muaj hwjchim tus Tswv, ¹⁶yog tib tug uas tsis txawj tuag, thiab nyob hauv qhov kaj tsis muaj leejtwg mus tau ze thiab tsis muaj leejtwg txeev pom thiab pom tsis tau. Thov kom nws tau koob meej thiab hwjchim tswjhwm mus ib txhis. Amee.
¹⁷Hais txog cov uas nplua nuj tiam no, koj cia li nkaw lus rau lawv kom tsis txhob khav theeb thiab tsis txhob vam tej nyiaj txiag uas tsis ruaj khov tiamsis vam Vajtswv uas pub txhua yam nplua mias rau peb kom peb thiaj muaj siab xyiv fab. ¹⁸Cia li nkaw lus kom lawv ua zoo, thiab ua tes haujlwm zoo ntau kawg, thiab ua lub siab dav zoo siab faib rau luag. ¹⁹Qhov uas ua li ntawd yog khaws qhov txhia chaw cia ua lub chaw tiag ruaj khov rau tom hauv ntej, kom lawv thiaj tuav tau txojsia, yog txojsia uas tseeb.
²⁰Timaute 'e, cia li tuav rawv tej uas twb muab cob rau koj lawm. Cia li zam tej lus tsis muaj qabhau uas saib tsis taus Vajtswv thiab tej lus sib cam uas luag xav yuam kev tias yog kev txawj ntse. ²¹Muaj qee leej lees yuav tej kev txawj ntse ntawd thiaj yuam kev ntawm txojkev ntseeg.
Thov Vajtswv txojkev hlub nrog nraim nej.