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So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
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And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,
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and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
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For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
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heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,
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treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
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having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
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For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
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Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.
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All Scripture Is Breathed Out by God
You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
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my persecutions and sufferings that happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium, and at Lystra—which persecutions I endured; yet from them all the Lord rescued me.
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and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
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All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
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preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
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For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
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As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
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Personal Instructions
Do your best to come to me soon.
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Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus.
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Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message.
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At my first defense no one came to stand by me, but all deserted me. May it not be charged against them!
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But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion's mouth.
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The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Do your best to come before winter. Eubulus sends greetings to you, as do Pudens and Linus and Claudia and all the brothers.
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The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.