1As many as are under a yoke as slaves should esteem their own masters worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be denigrated.
2Now those believing, having masters, should not despise them because they are brothers; but rather they should serve them, because they are believing ones and beloved, being helped by the good service. Teach and exhort these things.
3If anyone teaches another doctrine and does not draw near to the sound words of our Lord Jesus the Anointed One and the teaching according to godliness,
4he has been puffed up, knowing nothing, unhealthy about controversies and disputes about words, out of which come envy, strife, slander, evil suspicions,
5and constant frictions among men corrupted in the mind and defrauded of the truth, holding the godliness to be a means of gain; depart from one of such.
6However godliness with contentment is great gain.
7For we brought no thing into the world, evident because neither are we able to carry anything out;
8however, having sustenance and coverings, with these we will be content.
9However those desiring to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge the men into ruin and destruction.
10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils, which some stretching after were seduced away from the trust and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
11But you, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, trust, love, endurance, and gentleness;
12Fight the good fight of the trust, lay hold of the eternal life to which also you were called and did confess the good confession before many witnesses.
13I charge you before God who is giving life to all things, and the Anointed One Jesus, the One who having testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate,
14to keep the commandment without stain, above reproach, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus the Anointed One,
15which in their own seasons He will display, the blessed and alone Sovereign, the King of those being kings and the Lord of those being lords,
16the alone having immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no one of men has seen nor is able to see, to whom be honor and eternal dominion, Amen.
17But to the rich in the present age, instruct them not to be high-minded, nor to have hope in the uncertainty of riches, but on God who is living, who is providing us all things richly for enjoyment,
18to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous in distributing, ready to share,
19treasuring up for themselves a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.
20O Timothy, guard the deposit committed to you, avoiding the profane empty babblings and opposing arguments of the falsely called knowledge,
21which some professing went astray from the trust. Favor be with you all, Amen. It was written first to Timothy from Laodicea, which is capital of Phrygia of Pacatiana.