to the beloved Apphia, Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church in your house:

And Moses said to Aaron, This is what Jehovah has spoken, saying: By those who come near Me I will be honored as holy, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron kept still.

And you shall keep the charge of the sanctuary and the charge of the altar, that there be no more wrath upon the children of Israel.

Now my sons, do not be negligent, for Jehovah has chosen you to stand before Him, to serve Him, and that you should serve Him and burn incense.

And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

And in a dispute they shall stand as judges, and judge it according to My judgments. They shall keep My Laws and My statutes in all My appointed times, and they shall consecrate My Sabbaths.

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

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

But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

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

I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom:

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, desiring to hear pleasant things, they will heap up for themselves teachers;

But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

for he was numbered with us and obtained a part in this ministry.

So when they had appointed elders in every church, and prayed with fasting, they committed them to the Lord into whom they believed.

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

Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.

And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

If you instruct the brethren in these things, you will be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of the good doctrine which you have followed.

Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.

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

And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will also be able to teach others.

But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.