¹³ Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

⁹ holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

¹⁴ But you remain in the things which you have learned and have been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them.

² The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

¹⁴ The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

⁹ The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

¹⁷ But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.

²⁰ a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth.

²⁷ Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Gospel of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Gospel;

¹⁰ for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

³ 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,

¹ But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

³ Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

³ Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won't watch, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come upon you.

¹¹ I am coming quickly! Hold firmly that which you have, so that no one takes your crown.

²¹ Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

²³ Buy the truth, and don't sell it: Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

¹⁴ That good thing which was committed to you, guard through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us.

²¹ My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

⁴ He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

⁵ Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

⁶ Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

⁷ Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

⁸ Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

¹³ Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

⁸ and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

¹⁴ Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

²³ let us hold fast the confession of our hope unyieldingly. For he who promised is faithful.

²⁵ Nevertheless, hold firmly that which you have, until I come.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

⁶ but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

¹⁴ Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.

⁴ having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints,