as indeed you know how each one of you, as a father [to] his own children, we exhorted, and comforted [you], and imploring you,

And he laid his hands on him, and appointed him as the Lord ordered Moses.

And the king said to him, How often must I adjure you, that you speak truth to me in the name of the Lord?

And the king said to him, How often shall I solemnly charge you that you speak to me nothing but truth in the name of the Lord?

But Jesus kept silent. And the high priest answered and said to Him, "I adjure You by the living God: Tell us if You are the Christ, the Son of God!"

and crying out with a great voice he said, "What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure You by God, do not torment me!"

Then some of the wandering Jews, exorcists, attempted to name the name of the Lord Jesus over those having the evil spirits, saying, "We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches."

Just as I urged you to remain in Ephesus as I traveled into Macedonia, that you should command certain [people] not to teach differently,

This charge I commit to you, [my] son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that you may war by them the good warfare,

And these things command, so that they may be blameless.

I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing according to partiality.

I charge you before God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to put their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who provides all things richly for us to enjoy,

I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is going to judge the living and the dead in accordance with His appearing and His kingdom:

And whenever this letter is read before you, see that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans, and that you also read the [one] from Laodicea.

Now if anyone does not obey our word in this letter, take note of him, and do not associate with him, that he may be ashamed.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus Christ,