American Standard Version of 1901
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This charge I commit unto thee, my child Timothy, according to the prophecies which led the way to thee, that by them thou mayest war the good warfare;
holding faith and a good conscience; which some having thrust from them made shipwreck concerning the faith:
of whom is Hymenæus and Alexander; whom I delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.
For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.
For there are many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision,
Thou didst put all things in subjection under his feet.For in that he subjected all things unto him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to him.
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reckoned for righteousness.
For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.
{Many ancient authorities read For.}But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?
For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
{Or, whether}lest there be any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.