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But you have intimately known my teaching, life, aims, faith, patience, love, resignation,

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And indeed every one who is determined to live a godly life as a follower of Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

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But bad men and impostors will go on from bad to worse, misleading and being misled.

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But you must cling to the things which you have learnt and have been taught to believe, knowing who your teachers were,

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and will turn away from listening to the truth and will turn aside to fables.

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But as for you, you must exercise habitual self-control, and not live a self-indulgent life, but do the duty of an evangelist and fully discharge the obligations of your office.

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From this time onward there is reserved for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me, but also to all who love the thought of His Appearing.

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Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.

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The Lord, however, stood by me and filled me with inward strength, that through me the Message might be fully proclaimed and that all the Gentiles might hear it; and I was rescued from the lion's jaws.

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Erastus stayed in Corinth; Trophimus I left behind me at Miletus, ill.

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Paul, a bondservant of God and an Apostle of Jesus Christ for building up the faith of God's own people and spreading a full knowledge of the truths of religion,

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And at the appointed time He clearly made known His Message in the preaching with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Saviour:

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To the pure everything is pure; but to the polluted and unbelieving nothing is pure, but on the contrary their very minds and consciences are polluted.

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They profess to know God; but in their actions they disown Him, and are detestable and disobedient men, and for any good work are utterly useless.

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But as for you, you must speak in a manner that befits wholesome teaching.

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But when the goodness of God our Saviour, and His love to man, dawned upon us, not in consequence of things which we,

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But hold yourself aloof from foolish controversies and pedigrees and discussions and wrangling about the Law, for they are useless and vain.

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And let our people too learn to set a good example in following honest occupations for the supply of their necessities, so that they may not live useless lives.

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it is for love's sake that--instead of that--although I am none other than Paul the aged, and am now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus,

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Formerly he was useless to you, but now--true to his name--he is of great use to you and to me.

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I am sending him back to you, though in so doing I send part of myself.

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Only I wished to do nothing without your consent, so that his kind action of yours might not be done under pressure, but might be a voluntary one.

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no longer as a slave, but as something better than a slave--a brother peculiarly dear to me, and even dearer to you, both as a servant and as a fellow Christian.

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And if he was ever dishonest or is in your debt, debit me with the amount.

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And at the same time provide accommodation for me; for I hope that through your prayers I shall be permitted to come to you.

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