^{13 Ref} I charge you before God, who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate testified the good confession,

^{14 Ref} that you keep the commandment without spot, blameless, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ;

^{15 Ref} which in its own times he will show, who is the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

^{16 Ref} who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

^{17 Ref} Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;