Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed. 1Pe 2:17-20Eph 6:5-8Tit 2:5Tit 2:8-101Co 7:21-22Rom 2:24Col 3:22-25Mal 1:6 Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things. 1Ti 4:11Col 4:1Gen 16:4-51Pe 5:11Ti 5:12Pe 2:102Th 1:3Col 1:2
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, 1Ti 1:31Ti 1:102Ti 4:3Rom 16:17Tit 1:92Ti 1:13Tit 2:1-21Th 4:8 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions, 2Ti 2:232Ti 3:41Ti 3:62Pe 2:122Ti 2:14Jud 1:101Ti 1:41Ti 1:7 constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such. 1 2Pe 2:32Ti 3:5Tit 1:112Ti 3:8Tit 1:15-161Ti 6:6Rom 16:17-181Ti 3:3
But godliness with contentment is great gain. Heb 13:51Ti 6:8Php 4:11-13Pro 16:8Luk 12:31-321Ti 4:8Php 1:21Pro 15:16 For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out. Job 1:21Psa 49:17Luk 12:20-21Ecc 5:15-16Pro 27:24Luk 16:22-23 But having food and clothing, we will be content with that. Heb 13:5-6Mat 6:11Mat 6:25-33Gen 28:20Pro 30:8-9Deu 2:7Ecc 3:12-13Deu 8:3-4 But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction. 1Jn 2:15-17Pro 15:27Pro 28:20-221Ti 3:7Act 8:202Pe 2:3Mrk 4:19Eph 4:22 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows. Pro 1:191Ti 6:9Psa 32:10Pro 1:31Tit 1:11Isa 56:11Jud 1:11Mic 3:11
But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness. 2Ti 2:221Ti 4:122Ti 3:17Heb 12:142Pe 1:5-7Php 4:8-91Co 10:141Co 6:18 Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses. 1Pe 5:101Ti 1:181Co 9:25-262Ti 4:7Eph 6:10-18Php 3:12-141Ti 6:13Rev 3:3 I command you before God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession, Jhn 18:36-371Ti 5:21Mat 27:11Jhn 5:21Rev 1:5Rev 3:141Sa 2:61Ti 2:5 that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 2Pe 3:141Pe 1:71Th 5:23Heb 9:28Jud 1:24Php 1:10Tit 2:131Ch 28:9-10 which at the right time he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords. Rev 19:16Rev 17:141Ti 1:17Jer 10:10Psa 47:21Ti 1:11Dan 2:44-47Jer 46:18 He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen nor can see, to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen. 1Ti 1:17Jhn 1:181Jn 1:5Col 1:15Psa 90:2Jhn 6:46Exo 3:14Isa 57:15
Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy; Pro 11:28Act 14:17Mat 19:231Ti 4:10Jas 1:9-10Pro 27:24Jer 9:23-24Jer 17:7-8 that they do good, that they be rich in good works, that they be ready to distribute, willing to share; Heb 13:161Jn 3:17Psa 37:3Rom 12:8Gal 6:10Luk 12:21Pro 11:24-25Tit 2:14 laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold of eternal life. Mat 6:19-211Ti 6:122Ti 2:19Luk 16:91Pe 1:4Gal 6:8-9Pro 31:25Eph 3:17
Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge, Col 2:82Ti 2:162Ti 1:12-142Ti 3:14-16Col 2:18Rom 3:21Ti 6:142Th 2:15 which some profess, and thus have wandered from the faith. 2Ti 2:181Ti 1:191Ti 1:61Ti 6:102Ti 4:22Col 4:18Mat 6:13Rom 1:7
Grace be with you. Amen.