XIII. A Man of God
- But you, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, meekness.
- Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called and have confessed the good confession before many witnesses.
- I charge you before God, who preserves all things in life, and Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate,
- To keep the commandment spotless, without reproach, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
- Which in its own times the blessed and only Sovereign will show, the King of those who reign as kings and Lord of those who rule as lords,
- Who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen nor can see, to whom be honor and eternal might. Amen.
- Charge those who are rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to set their hope on the uncertainty of riches but on God, who affords us all things richly for our enjoyment;
- To do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to distribute, to be ones willing to share;
- Laying away for themselves a good foundation as a treasure for the future, that they may lay hold on that which is really life.
- O Timothy, guard the deposit, turning away from profane, vain babblings and oppositions from what is falsely called knowledge,
- Because of which some, professing this, have misaimed regarding the faith.
