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1 Timothy 6:1-14
1 As many as are slaves under the yoke should regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, lest the name of God and our teaching be blasphemed. 2 And those who have believing masters should not despise them, because they are brothers; but rather they should serve them, because those who recompense them for the kindly service received are believers and beloved. These things teach and exhort. 3 If anyone teaches different things and does not consent to healthy words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching which is according to godliness, 4 he is blinded with pride, understanding nothing, but is diseased with questionings and contentions of words, out of which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions, 5 perpetual wranglings of men corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, supposing godliness to be a means of gain. 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain; 7 for we have brought nothing into the world, because neither can we carry anything out. 8 But having food and covering, with these we will be content. 9 But those who intend to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge men into destruction and ruin. 10 For the love of money is a root of all evils, because of which some, aspiring after money, have been led away from the faith and pierced themselves through with many pains. 11 But you, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, meekness. 12 Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called and have confessed the good confession before many witnesses. 13 I charge you before God, who preserves all things in life, and Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate, 14 to keep the commandment spotless, without reproach, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ...
2 Timothy 3 1 But know this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, not lovers of good, 4 traitors, reckless, blinded with pride, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having an outward form of godliness, though denying its power; from these also turn away. 6 For of these are those who creep into houses and take captive silly women heaped with sins, who are led by various desires 7 and are always learning yet never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth. 8 And in the manner that Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, disapproved concerning the faith. 9 But they will not advance farther, for their folly will be completely manifest to all, as also the folly of those became. 10 But you have closely followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, long-suffering, love, endurance, 11 persecutions, sufferings, such as befell me in Antioch, in Iconium, in Lystra. Such persecutions I bore, and out of them all the Lord delivered me. 12 And indeed all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 But you, continue in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from which ones you have learned them 15 and that from a babe you have known the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through the faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good work.
Let's pray for the churches in these days to live the New Jerusalem and work the New Jerusalem.
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