Study Desk

No longer drink water only, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

The sins of some men are quite evident, going before them to judgment; for others, their sins follow after.

For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.

For the love of money is a root of all sorts of evils, and some by aspiring to it have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.

For this reason I remind you to kindle afresh the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and self-discipline.

Therefore do not be ashamed of either the witness about our Lord or me His prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God,

for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher.

For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.

The Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains,

but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me—

Understand what I say, for the Lord will give you insight in everything.

for which I endure hardship even to chains as a criminal. But the word of God has not been chained.

For this reason I endure all things for the sake of the elect, so that they also may obtain the salvation, which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal glory.

If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.

But avoid godless and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness,

Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, having been prepared for every good work.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, without gentleness, without love for good,