Let as many as are bondmen under yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the teaching be not reviled.
And they that have believing masters let them not despise [them] because they are brethren, but the more let them serve, because they that partake of the good service are faithful and beloved. These things teach and exhort.
If anyone teach differently, and accede not to sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that is according to piety,
he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questionings and word-disputes, out of which cometh envy, strife, revilings, evil suspicions,
wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that piety is gain.
But piety with contentment is great gain.
For we brought nothing into the world; because neither can we carry anything out.
But having food and covering we shall be therewith satisfied.
But those that wish to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, such as sink men into destruction and perdition.
For a root of all evils is the love of money, which some eagerly seeking were led astray from the faith and pierced themselves through with many pains.
But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness of spirit.
Combat the good combat of faith; lay hold on the life eternal whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
I charge [thee] in the sight of God that keepeth all things alive, and Christ Jesus that witnessed before Pontius Pilate the good confession,
that thou keep the commandment spotless, irreproachable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;
which in its own times shall show the blessed and only Potentate, the King of those that reign and Lord of those that exercise lordship;
who only hath immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom none of men saw nor can see; to whom [be] honour and might eternal. Amen.
Those rich in the present age charge not to be highminded, nor to set their hope on uncertainty of riches, but on the God that affordeth us all things richly for enjoyment;
to do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal in distributing, ready to communicate,
laying up for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold on the real life.
O Timothy, keep the deposit, turning away from the profane babblings and oppositions of the falsely-named knowledge,
in professing which some missed the mark concerning the faith. Grace [be] with you.