1 Timothy 4:12-16

J.B. Phillips New Testament

A little personal advice

^12-16Don’t let people look down on you because you are young; see that they look up to you because you are an example to them in your speech and behaviour, in your love and faith and sincerity. Concentrate until my arrival on your reading and on your preaching and teaching. Never forget that you received the gift of proclaiming God’s Word when the assembled elders laid their hands on you. Give your whole attention, all your energies, to these things, so that your progress is plain for all to see. Keep a critical eye both upon your own life and on the teaching you give, and if you continue to follow the line I have indicated you will not only save your own soul but the souls of many of your hearers as well.

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1 Timothy 4:12-14

New King James Version

Take Heed to Your Ministry

¹²Let no one ^[a]despise your youth, but be an ^(A)example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, ^[b]in spirit, in faith, in purity. ¹³Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to ^[c]doctrine. ¹⁴^(B)Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy ^(C)with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.