just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of the grace.

when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.

Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.

But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, indeed, holding fast to salvation, though we speak in this manner.

For this reason I will not be negligent to always remind you of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth.

I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that not any lie is of the truth.

being filled with the fruits of righteousness through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, bearing fruit in every good work and growing into the full true knowledge of God;

But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, supply with your faith virtue, with virtue knowledge,

with godliness brotherly affection, and with brotherly affection love.

Now concerning sacrifices to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?

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.

Therefore encourage each other and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, uphold the weak, be longsuffering towards all.

the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the rudimentary principles of the Words of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting; and so much the more as you see the Day drawing near.

But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

And on some have compassion, making a distinction;