Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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1 Those who are slaves must consider
their masters worthy of all
respect, so that no one will speak
evil of the name of God and of our
teaching.
2 Slaves belonging to
Christian masters must not despise
them, for they are their brothers. Instead,
they are to serve them even
better, because those who benefit
from their work are believers whom
they love.
False Teaching and True Riches
2 You must teach and preach these
things.
3 Whoever teaches a different
doctrine and does not agree with the
true words of our Lord Jesus Christ
and with the teaching of our religion
4 is swollen with pride and knows
nothing. He has an unhealthy desire
to argue and quarrel about words,
and this brings on jealousy, disputes,
insults, evil suspicions,
5 and
constant arguments from people
whose minds do not function and
who no longer have the truth. They
think that religion is a way to become
rich.
6 Well, religion does make a person
very rich, if he is satisfied with
what he has.
7 What did we bring
into the world? Nothing! What can
we take out of the world? Nothing!
8 So then, if we have food and
clothes, that should be enough for
us.
9 But those who want to get rich
fall into temptation and are caught
in the trap of many foolish and
harmful desires, which pull them
down to ruin and destruction.
10 For
the love of money is a source of all
kinds of evil. Some have been so
eager to have it that they have wandered
away from the faith and have
broken their hearts with many sorrows.
Personal Instructions
11 But you, man of God, avoid all
these things. Strive for righteousness,
godliness, faith, love, endurance,
and gentleness.
12 Run your
best in the race of faith, and win
eternal life for yourself; for it was to
this life that God called you when
you firmly professed your faith before
many witnesses.
13 Before God,
who gives life to all things, and before
Christ Jesus, who firmly professed
his faith before Pontius Pilate,
I command you note
14 to obey your
orders and keep them faithfully until
the Day when our Lord Jesus Christ
will appear.
15 His appearing will be
brought about at the right time by
God, the blessed and only Ruler, the
King of kings and the Lord of lords.
16 He alone is immortal; he lives in
the light that no one can approach.
No one has ever seen him; no one
can ever see him. To him be honor
and eternal power! Amen.
17 Command those who are rich in
the things of this life not to be proud,
but to place their hope, not in such
an uncertain thing as riches, but in
God, who generously gives us everything
for our enjoyment.
18 Command
them to do good, to be rich in
good works, to be generous and
-- --
ready to share with others.
19 In this
way they will store up for themselves
a treasure which will be a
solid foundation for the future. And
then they will be able to win the life
which is true life.
20 Timothy, keep safe what has
been entrusted to your care. Avoid
the profane talk and foolish arguments
of what some people wrongly
call “Knowledge.”
21 For some have
claimed to possess it, and as a result
they have lost the way of faith.
21 God's grace be with you all.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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