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1 Timothy 6:20

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you,  avoiding  irreverent and empty speech and contradictions from what is falsely called knowledge.

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Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition,  based on the elements of the world, rather than Christ.


Avoid irreverent and empty speech, since those who engage in it will produce even more godlessness,


Let no one condemn  you  by delighting in ascetic practices  and the worship of angels, claiming access to a visionary realm. Such a person is inflated  by empty notions of his unspiritual  mind.


Considerable in every way. First, they were entrusted  with the very words of God.


to keep this command without fault or failure until the appearing  of our Lord  Jesus Christ.


So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm  and hold to the traditions you were taught,  whether by what we said or what we wrote.


But avoid foolish debates,  genealogies,  quarrels,  and disputes about the law, because they are unprofitable and worthless.


You, therefore, my son, be strong in the grace  that is in Christ Jesus.


that conforms to the gospel  concerning the glory of the blessed God,  which was entrusted to me.


Therefore, we ourselves boast  about you among God’s churches #– #about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and afflictions that you are enduring.


and may not pay attention to Jewish myths  and the commands of people who reject the truth.


holding to the faithful message as taught,  so that he will be able both to encourage with sound teaching  and to refute those who contradict it.


But you, man of God, flee from these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love,  endurance,  and gentleness.


But have nothing to do with pointless and silly myths.  Rather, train yourself in godliness.


Some have departed from these and turned aside to fruitless discussion.


or to pay attention to myths  and endless genealogies. These promote empty speculations rather than God’s plan,  which operates by faith.


For the wisdom of this world is foolishness  with God, since it is written,  He catches the wise in their craftiness;  ,


Now all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there spent their time on nothing else but telling or hearing something new.


Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some said, ‘What is this ignorant show-off  trying to say? ’ Others replied, ‘He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities’ #– #because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.


Remember, then, what you have received and heard; keep it, and repent. If you are not alert, I will come   like a thief, and you have no idea at what hour I will come upon you.


To Titus,  my true son  in our common faith. Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.


We do, however, speak a wisdom among the mature,  but not a wisdom of this age, or of the rulers  of this age, who are coming to nothing.


Claiming to be wise, they became fools


Paul went on to Derbe and Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy,  the son of a believing Jewish woman,  but his father was a Greek.


To Timothy,  my true son in the faith. Grace, mercy, and peace from God the  Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.


We know that the law is not meant for a righteous person, but for the lawless and rebellious,  for the ungodly and sinful, for the unholy and irreverent, for those who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers,





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