Now in this that I command you, I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse.

What? Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her:

Charm is deceitful and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears Jehovah, she shall be praised.

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

by which also you are being kept safe, if you hold fast that Word which I preached to you; unless you believe in vain.

But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I command in all the churches.

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, blameless.

Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;

for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Therefore, brethren, stand firm and hold on to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.

But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the teaching which you received from us.