Hi, and welcome back
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and
today we're reading from the
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2nd book of Timothy,
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but before we
begin, let's pray together.
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Dear Jesus, today, right now
around the world, your children
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are coming apart from the
different things that take our
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time, and our attention,
and our hands, and our hearts,
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and our minds,
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we're stepping into your
presence especially right now
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to read your word.
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Please guide us, and may
the words that we read here
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strengthen us, to go back
to whatever it is that we face
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right now,
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but not to go back like we
were just a few minutes ago,
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but to go back changed, more
like You, and ready to do Your
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will in whatever way we can.
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We love You so much,
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thank You for loving us.
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Amen.
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When we last were together,
we were reading from the 2nd
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letter to Timothy, and
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Paul was writing about the house
of Onesiphorus, and how that he
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wished God's mercy on
that house, because how often
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Onesiphorus came to
him, Paul, and refreshed him.
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He was not ashamed that
his friend Paul was in prison.
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We pick up now with verse
17, chapter 1 of 2 Timothy.
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But, when he... was in Rome,
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he sought me out very
diligently, and found me.
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The Lord grant unto him that
he may find mercy of the Lord
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in that day: and in how many
things he ministered unto me at
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Ephesus, thou knowest very
well. Continuing with chapter 2.
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Thou therefore, my
son, be strong in the grace
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that is in Christ Jesus.
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And the things that thou
hast heard of me among many
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witnesses, the same commit thou
to faithful men, who shall be
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able to teach others also.
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Thou therefore endure
hardness, as a good soldier
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of Jesus Christ.
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No man that warreth entangleth
himself with the affairs of this
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life; that he may please him who
hath chosen him to be a soldier.
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And if a man also strive
for masteries, yet is he not
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crowned, except
he strive lawfully.
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The husbandmen that
laboreth must be first partaker
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of the fruits.
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Consider what I say; and
the Lord give thee understanding
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in all things.
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Remember that Jesus Christ
of the seed of David was raised
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from the dead, according
to my gospel: wherein I suffer
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trouble, as an evildoer, even
unto bonds; but the word of God
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is not bound.
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Therefore I endure all things
for the elect's sakes, that they
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may also obtain the salvation
which is in Christ Jesus
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with eternal glory.
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It is a faithful saying: for
if we be dead with him, we shall
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also live with him: if we
suffer, we shall also reign
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with him: if we deny
him, he also will deny us:
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if we believe not, yet he
abideth faithful: he cannot
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deny himself.
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Of these things put them
in remembrance, charging them
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before the Lord that they strive
not about words to no profit,
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but to the
subverting of the hearers.
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Study to show thyself approved
unto God, a workman that needeth
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not to be ashamed, rightly
dividing the word of truth.
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But shun profane and
vain babblings: for they will
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increase unto more ungodliness.
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And their word will eat as doth
a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus
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and Philetus; who concerning the
truth have erred, saying that
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the resurrection is past
already; and overthrow the faith
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of some.
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Nevertheless the foundation of
God standeth sure, having this
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seal, the Lord
knoweth them that are his.
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And, Let every one that
nameth the name of Christ
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depart from iniquity.
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But in a great house there are
not only vessels of gold and of
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silver, but also of wood
and of earth; and some to honor,
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and some to dishonor.
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If a man therefore purge himself
from these, he shall be a vessel
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unto honor, sanctified,
and meet for the master's use,
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and prepared
unto every good work.
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Flee also youthful lusts:
but follow righteousness, faith,
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charity, peace, with
them that call on the Lord out
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of a pure heart.
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But foolish and unlearned
questions avoid, knowing that
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they do gender strifes.
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And the servant of the Lord must
not strive; but be gentle unto
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all men, apt to teach, patient;
in meekness instructing those
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that oppose themselves; if
God peradventure will give them
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repentance to the acknowledging
of the truth; and that they may
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recover themselves out of
the snare of the devil, who are
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taken captive
by him at his will.
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Continuing to read
in 2 Timothy, chapter 3
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This know also, that in the last
days perilous times shall come.
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For men shall be lovers of their
own selves, covetous, boasters,
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proud, blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, unthankful, unholy,
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without natural affection,
trucebreakers, false accusers,
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incontinent, fierce, despisers
of those that are good,
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traitors, heady, high-minded,
lovers of pleasures more than
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lovers of God; having a form of
godliness, but denying the power
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thereof: from such turn away.
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For of this sort are
they which creep into houses,
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and lead captive silly women
laden with sins, led away with
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divers lusts, ever learning,
and never able to come to the
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knowledge of the truth.
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Now as Jannes and Jambres
withstood Moses, so do these
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also resist the
truth: men of corrupt minds,
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reprobate concerning the faith.
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But they shall proceed no
further: for their folly shall
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be manifest unto all
men, as theirs also was.
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But thou hast fully known
my doctrine, manner of life,
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purpose, faith, long-suffering,
charity, patience, persecutions,
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afflictions, which came
unto me at Antioch, at Iconium,
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at Lystra; what persecutions
I endured: but out of them all
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the Lord delivered me.
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Yea, and all that will
live godly in Christ Jesus
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shall suffer persecution.
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But evil men and seducers shall
wax worse and worse, deceiving,
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and being deceived.
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But continue thou in the
things which thou hast learned
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and hast been assured
of, knowing of whom thou
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hast learned them; and that from
a child thou hast known the holy
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scriptures, which are able
to make thee wise unto salvation
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through faith
which is in Christ Jesus.
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All scripture is
given by inspiration of God,
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and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction,
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for instruction in
righteousness: that the man of
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God may be perfect, throughly
furnished unto all good works.
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We are reading 2
Timothy, chapter 4,
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in the King James Version.
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I charge thee therefore before
God, and the Lord Jesus Christ,
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who shall judge the quick
and the dead at his appearing
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and his kingdom; preach
the word; be instant in season,
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out of season; reprove, rebuke,
exhort with all long-suffering
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and doctrine.
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For the time will come when they
will not endure sound doctrine;
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but after their own lusts
shall they heap to themselves
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teachers, having itching ears;
and they shall turn away their
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ears from the truth, and
shall be turned unto fables.
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But watch thou in all things,
endure afflictions, do the work
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of an evangelist, make
full proof of thy ministry.
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For I am now ready to be
offered, and the time of my
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departure is at hand.
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I have fought a good fight,
I have finished my course,
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I have kept the faith:
henceforth there is laid up for
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me a crown of righteousness,
which the Lord, the righteous
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judge, shall give me at
that day: and not to me only,
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but unto all them also
that love his appearing.
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Do they diligence to
come shortly unto me:
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for Demas hath forsaken me,
having loved this present world,
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and is departed unto
Thessalonica; Crescens
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to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
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Only Luke is with me.
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Take Mark, and bring him
with thee: for he is profitable
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to me for the ministry.
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And Tychicus have
I sent to Ephesus.
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The cloak that I left at Troas
with Carpus, when thou comest,
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bring with thee, and the books,
but especially the parchments.
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Alexander the coppersmith did me
much evil: the Lord reward him
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according to his works: of whom
be thou ware also; for he hath
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greatly withstood our words.
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At my first answer no man stood
with me, but all men forsook me:
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I pray God that it may
not be laid to their charge.
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Notwithstanding the Lord stood
with me, and strengthened me;
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that by me the preaching might
be fully known, and that all the
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Gentiles might hear: and I
was delivered out of the mouth
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of the lion.
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And the Lord shall
deliver me from every evil work,
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and will preserve me unto
his heavenly kingdom: to whom be
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glory for ever and ever.
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Amen.
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Salute Prisca and Aquila, and
the household of Onesiphorus.
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Erastus abode at Corinth:
but Trophimus have I left
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at Miletus sick.
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Do thy diligence
to come before winter.
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Eubulus greeteth thee, and
Prudens, and Linus, and Claudia,
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and all the brethren.
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The Lord Jesus
Christ be with thy spirit.
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Grace be with you.
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Amen.
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Continuing now in the book of
Titus, chapter 1, and this is,
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again, the King James Version.
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Titus chapter 1.
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Paul, a servant of God,
and an apostle of Jesus Christ,
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according to the faith of God's
elect, and the acknowledging of
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the truth which is after
godliness; in hope of eternal
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life, which God, that cannot
lie, promised before the world
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began; but hath in due times
manifested his word through
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preaching, which is committed
unto me according to the
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commandment of God our Savior;
to Titus, mine own son after the
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common faith: grace, mercy,
and peace, from God the Father
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and the Lord
Jesus Christ our Savior.
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For this cause left I thee in
Crete, that thou shouldest set
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in order the things that
are wanting, and ordain elders
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in every city, as I had
appointed thee: if any be
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blameless, the husband of one
wife, having faithful children
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not accused of riot or unruly.
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For a bishop must be blameless,
as the steward of God;
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not self-willed, not soon angry,
not given to wine, no striker,
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not given to filthy lucre; but a
lover of hospitality, a lover of
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good men, sober, just, holy,
temperate; holding fast the
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faithful word as he hath been
taught, that he may be able by
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sound doctrine both to exhort
and to convince the gainsayers.
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For there are many unruly
and vain talkers and deceivers,
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specially they of the
circumcision: whose mouths must
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be stopped, who subvert whole
houses, teaching things which
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they ought not, for
filthy lucre's sake.
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One of themselves, even a
prophet of their own, said,
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The Cretians are always liars,
evil beasts, slow bellies.
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This witness is true.
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Wherefore rebuke them
sharply, that they may be sound
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in the faith; not giving heed to
Jewish fables, and commandments
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of men, that
turn from the truth.
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Unto the pure all things
are pure: but unto them that are
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defiled and unbelieving is
nothing pure; but even their
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mind and conscience is defiled.
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They profess that they know
God; but in works they deny him,
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being abominable, and
disobedient, and unto every
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good work reprobate.
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We are reading in the
book of Titus, chapter 2.
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But speak thou the things which
become sound doctrine: that the
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aged men be sober, grave,
temperate, sound in faith,
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in charity, in patience.
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The aged women likewise, that
they be in behavior as becometh
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holiness, not false accusers,
not given to much wine,
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teachers of good things; that
they may teach the young women
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to be sober, to love
their husbands, to love their
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children, to be discreet,
chaste, keepers at home, good,
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obedient to their own
husbands, that the word of God
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be not blasphemed.
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Young men likewise
exhort to be sober minded.
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In all things showing
thyself a pattern of good works:
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in doctrine showing
uncorruptness, gravity,
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sincerity, sound speech,
that cannot be condemned;
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that he that is of the contrary
part may be ashamed, having no
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evil thing to say of you.
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