| 1 | ¶ Let as many bondmen as are under yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and the teaching be not blasphemed. | |
| 2 | And they that have believing masters, let them not despise {them} because they are brethren; but let them the rather serve them with subjection, because they are faithful and beloved, who profit by the good and ready service {rendered}. These things teach and exhort. | |
| 3 | If any one teach differently, and do not accede to sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching which {is} according to piety, | |
| 4 | he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, out of which arise envy, strife, injurious words, evil suspicions, | |
| 5 | constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding gain to be {the end of} piety. | |
| 6 | ¶ But piety with contentment *is* great gain. | |
| 7 | For we have brought nothing into the world: {it is} {manifest} that neither can we carry anything out. | |
| 8 | But having sustenance and covering, we will be content with these. | |
| 9 | But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and ruin. | |
| 10 | For the love of money is {the} root of every evil; which some having aspired after, have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves with many sorrows. | |
| 11 | But *thou*, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness of spirit. | |
| 12 | Strive earnestly {in} the good conflict of faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which thou hast been called, and hast confessed the good confession before many witnesses. | |
| 13 | ¶ I enjoin thee before God who preserves all things in life, and Christ Jesus who witnessed before Pontius Pilate the good confession, | |
| 14 | that thou keep the commandment spotless, irreproachable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ; | |
| 15 | which in its own time the blessed and only Ruler shall shew, the King of those that reign, and Lord of those that exercise lordship; | |
| 16 | who only has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor is able to see; to whom {be} honour and eternal might. Amen. | |
| 17 | Enjoin on those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust on the uncertainty of riches; but in the God who affords us all things richly for {our} enjoyment; | |
| 18 | to do good, to be rich in good works, to be liberal in distributing, disposed to communicate {of their substance}, | |
| 19 | laying by for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of {what is} really life. | |
| 20 | O Timotheus, keep the entrusted deposit, avoiding profane, vain babblings, and oppositions of false-named knowledge, | |
| 21 | of which some having made profession, have missed the faith. Grace {be} with thee. | |