(Tap footnote to read it. Old Testament quotations are underlined. "Love" with a caret ("^love") is agapé.1"agapé" The Greek words ἀγάπη (agapé, noun), and ἀγαπάω (agapaó; verb) are typically translated "love". However, unlike our English word "love" – which primarily speaks of affection and feelings – agapé centers on choice and behavior. It’s the "love" based on will, choice, behavior, and action; not feelings. (Feelings-based love is the Greek word φιλέω (phileó), which properly means "brotherly love/affection".) Thus, you could hate someone passionately and still treat him with "agapé". Agapé "love" is best understood as the pursuit of what is most beneficial to someone or something, regardless of the cost to yourself or the type of response received from the person or thing. It can also indicate a preference for someone or something over other things. )
Various instructions (Continued)
- However many are under a yoke as slaves, let them consider their own masters worthy of all honor so the name of God and our teaching won’t be blasphemed.
- Now, let the men having believing masters not despise them because they are brothers. But rather, let them serve because the men being helped by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and encourage these things.
- If someone teaches another doctrine and doesn’t agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus the Anointed and with the teaching conforming to godliness,
- he is *puffed up; understanding nothing but having an unhealthy interest concerning controversies and disputes about words, from which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions,
- and perverse disputes; ruinously *corrupting men in mind and *defrauding them of the truth, supposing godliness to be a means of gain.
- But godliness with contentment is a means of great gain.
- For we brought nothing into the world, so nor can we carry anything out of it.
- But having food and clothes is enough; we will be content with these.
- But the men strongly desiring to become rich fall into temptation, and a trap, and many foolish and harmful cravings which plunge men into ruin and destruction.
- For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils, which in aspiring for it, some were led astray from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
- But you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, ^love, endurance, and gentle strength.
- Fight the good fight of the faith. Seize the life of ages1“life of ages” is literal, and captures the duration as well as the quality of the life, which the traditional interpretation of “eternal life” doesn’t. The word translated “ages” (αἰώνιον) is the adjective form of the Greek word “αἰών” (aion), which is used – for example – in Matthew 24:3 “what are the signs of your coming and the end of the age?”. into which you were called, and confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.
- I charge you in the sight of God (the One giving life to all things), and Jesus the Anointed (the One who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate),
- you are to keep the commandment without blemish and above reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus the Anointed,
- which He will display in His own times: the blessed and only ruler – the King of the men being kings, and the Lord of the men being lords.
- the One alone having immortality and dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no one among men saw, nor is able to see; to whom be honor and the dominion of ages. Amen.
- To the rich in the present age, instruct them not to be arrogant nor to *trust in the uncertainty of wealth but in God; the One richly providing us with all things for enjoyment.
- They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,
- storing up for themselves a good foundation for what is about to come, so they might seize the life which is truly life.
- O Timothy, keep the deposit entrusted to you, turning away from profane, worthless babblings and contradictions that are falsely called knowledge,
- which in professing them, some went astray from the faith. Grace be with you. [Amen]
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