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But they will not make progress, for their infatuation will be understood by every one, as theirs also was understood.

But thou hast followed after my doctrine, and my manner of life, and my aims, and my faith, and my long suffering, and my love, and my patience,

But evil and seducing men will add to their wickedness, while they deceive and are deceived.

But continue thou in the things thou hast learned and been assured of; for thou knowest from whom thou learnedst;

For the time will come, when they will not give ear to sound teaching; but, according to their lusts, will multiply to themselves teachers, in the itching of their hearing;

But be thou vigilant in all things; and endure evils, and do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill thy ministry.

But I am soon to be immolated; and the time of my dissolution hath come.

and henceforth there is preserved for me a crown of righteousness, with which my Lord, the righteous Judge, will recompense me in that day; and not me only, but them also who love his manifestation.

And when thou comest, bring the bookcase, which I left at Troas with Carpus, and the books, but especially the roll of parchments.

At my first defence, no one was with me, but they all forsook me. Let not this be reckoned to them.

17 But my Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fulfilled; and [fn] all the Gentiles might hear: and I was rescued from the mouth of the lion.

But he should be a lover of strangers, and a lover of good [fn] , and be sober, upright, kind-hearted, and restraining himself from evil passions;

For to the pure, every thing is pure; but to them who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but their understanding is defiled, and their conscience.

And they profess that they know God, but in their works they deny him; and they are odious, and disobedient, and to every good work reprobates.

But speak thou the things that belong to wholesome doctrine.

but let them manifest that their fidelity, in all respects, is good: so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Life-giver, in all things.

and that they speak ill of no man; that they be not contentious, but mild; and that in every thing they manifest benignity towards all men.

But when the kindness and compassion of God our Life-giver was revealed,

not by works of righteousness which we had done, but according to his mercy, he vivified us, by the washing of the new birth, and by the renovation of the Holy Spirit,

But foolish questions, and stories of genealogies, and the disputes and contests of the scribes, avoid: for there is no profit in them, and they are vain.