Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.

I have shown you in everything, by laboring like this, that we need to support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Nevertheless, brethren, I have written more boldly to you on some points, as reminding you, because of the grace given to me by God,

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.

Therefore 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 argue with empty words to no good, to the destruction of the hearers.

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.

knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ made known to me.

Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle (in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder),

that you may remember the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and the commandment of us, the 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 instructed concerning 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 servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.

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

who also made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive.

But in all things commending ourselves as ministers of God; in much endurance, in afflictions, in needs, in distresses,

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

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

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

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.

Your Words were found, and I ate them; and Your Word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; for I am called by Your name, O Jehovah the God of Hosts.

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

from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every individual does its part, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

and not holding fast to the Head; from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from 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 continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them,

All Scripture is breathed by God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,

as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,

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

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.

If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

The Law of Jehovah is perfect, converting the soul; the Testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.

for I give you good teaching; do not forsake my law.

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

If anyone wants to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak out of Myself.

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 as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine:

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

Let bondservants be obedient to their own masters, well pleasing in all things, not answering back,

Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son.

Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.

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