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Those who have masters who are believers, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather serve them more zealously, because they are believers and beloved in whose service they find rest; These things teach and exhort.

But our gain is greater contentment, for it is the worship of God.

But you, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, piety, faith, love, patience, and meekness.

Charge those who are rich in this world, that they be not proud, nor trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God who gives us all things so abundantly for our comfort;

For God has not given us the spirit of fear but of power and of love and of good discipline.

Be not, therefore, ashamed of the testimony of our LORD, nor of me his prisoner; but bear the hardships that go along with the preaching of the gospel through the power of God;

Who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own will and his grace, which was given us in Jesus Christ before the world began,

But when he was in Rome, he searched for me diligently, and found me.

Because of him I suffer hardship, even to bonds like a malefactor; but the word of God is not restricted.

But if we believe not in him, yet he will still remain faithful; for he cannot deny himself.

You should keep these things in remembrance, as a testimony before our LORD, that the faithful should not argue over words in which there is no profit but which are destruction to those who listen to them.

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; some for formal use on occasions of honor and others for service.

A servant of our LORD must not quarrel; but be gentle to all men, apt at teaching and patient,

Having a form of godliness, but are far from the power of God: from such turn away.

But they shall not progress, for their folly is well known to every man, as theirs also was.

But you have been a follower of my teaching, manner of life, purpose, faith, patience, charity, love, steadfastness,

But bad and deceptive men shall grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

But hold fast to the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them;

For the time will come when men will not listen to sound doctrine; but they will add for themselves extra teachers according to their desires, being lured by enticing words;

But you must be awake to all things, endure hardships, do the work of a preacher, and fulfil your ministry.