11但你这属上帝的人要远避这些事，要追求公义、敬虔、信心、爱心、忍耐和温柔，12要为真道打美好的仗，要持定永生。你是为永生蒙召的，并在许多见证人面前做过美好的见证。13在赐万物生命的上帝面前，也在向本丢·彼拉多做过美好见证的基督耶稣面前，我嘱咐你：14要遵守这命令，做纯洁无瑕、无可指责的人，一直到我们的主耶稣基督再来。15到了时候，配得称颂、独有权能的万王之王、万主之主要使基督显现。16上帝是独一不朽的，住在人不能接近的光中，从来没有人见过祂，也没有人能够看见祂。愿尊贵和永远的权柄都归给祂。阿们！17你要劝诫那些今世富足的人不要高傲，也不要冀望于靠不住的钱财，要信靠将万物厚赐给我们享用的上帝。18你要劝他们多多行善、慷慨施舍、乐意助人。19这样，他们可以为自己的将来奠定美好的基础，以便持守真正的生命。20提摩太啊，你要持守所托付给你的，避开世俗的空谈和那些违背真理、似是而非的学问。21有些自称有这种学问的人已经偏离了信仰。 愿恩典与你们同在！
English Standard Version
1Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants* regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.
False Teachers and True Contentment
2Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.3If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound* words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness,4he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,5and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.6But godliness with contentment is great gain,7for we brought nothing into the world, and* we cannot take anything out of the world.8But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.9But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
Fight the Good Fight of Faith
11But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.12Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.13I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before* Pontius Pilate made the good confession,14to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,15which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords,16who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.17As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.18They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,19thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.20O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”21for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you.*
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