Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years, night and day I did not cease, with tears, exhorting each one.

By all things I have shown you, that thus laboring it is necessary to help [those] being weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

And I write more boldly to you brothers, in part, as reminding you, because of the grace having been given to me by God,

Because of this I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.

For which cause I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

Remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord not to dispute about words, useful for nothing, for the ruin of the hearers.

Therefore I shall not neglect to constantly remind you concerning these things, although you know and have been established in the present truth.

knowing that the putting off of my tent is soon, just as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

This already, beloved, [is] the second letter I write to you, in [both of] which I stir up your pure mind by a reminder,

to remember the words having been previously spoken by the holy prophets, and the commandment of your apostles of the Lord and Savior;

But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

Then He said to them, "Therefore every scribe having become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure new and old [things]."

Let a man so consider us, as ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

Now furthermore what is required among the stewards, is that one be found faithful.

who also has made us efficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of [the] letter but of [the] Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

but in everything commending ourselves as ministers of God: in much endurance, in tribulations, in hardships, in distresses,

But that you also may know my circumstances, and how I am doing, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will make all things known to you;

Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister, and fellow servant in the Lord, will tell you all things about me.

and sent Timothy, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow worker in the gospel of Christ, in order to establish you and encourage you concerning your faith,

Be diligent to show yourself approved unto God, a worker unashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Consume them, and Your word shall be to me for the joy and gladness of my heart. For Your name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.

but speaking the truth in love, we may grow up in all things into Him who is the head--Christ;

from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the working of the measure of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the edification of itself in love.

and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the body, supported and joined together by joints and ligaments, grows with the growth of God.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you learned them,

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

as newborn babes, desire the genuine milk of the word, that by it you may grow,

for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is opposed to sound doctrine,

Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for by doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

If anyone teaches differently and does not consent to sound words, even those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness,

The law of the Lord is perfect, converting souls; the testimony of the Lord is faithful, instructing babes.

For I give you a good gift; forsake not my law.

Therefore Jesus answered them and said, "My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

If anyone desires to do His will, he will know about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I am speaking on My own authority.

For there will be a time when they will not put up with sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, they will heap up for themselves teachers, tickling their ears,

But you speak the things which suit sound doctrine.

in all respects showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, dignity, incorruptibility,

[Exhort] bondservants to be subject to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not talking back,

Everyone who transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ, this [one] has both the Father and the Son.

Nevertheless, to what we have attained, let us walk by the same rule, [being] of the same mind.

But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you learned them,