1 Timothy 4:6
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Counsel to Timothy. 6 [a]If you will give these instructions to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished on the words of the faith and of the sound teaching you have followed.
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- 4:6–10 Timothy is urged to be faithful, both in his teaching and in his own life, as he looks only to God for salvation.
1 Timothy 6:3
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3 Whoever teaches something different and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the religious teaching(A)
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2 Timothy 4:3
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3 For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine but, following their own desires and insatiable curiosity,[a] will accumulate teachers(A)
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- 4:3 Insatiable curiosity: literally, “with itching ears.”
Titus 1:9
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9 holding fast to the true message as taught so that he will be able both to exhort with sound doctrine and to refute opponents.(A)
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Titus 2:1
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III. Teaching the Christian Life
Chapter 2
Christian Behavior.[a] 1 As for yourself, you must say what is consistent with sound doctrine, namely,(A)
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- 2:1–10 One of Titus’ main tasks in Crete is to become acquainted with the character of the Cretans and thereby learn to cope with its deficiencies (see Ti 1:12). The counsel is not only for Titus himself but for various classes of people with whom he must deal: older men and women (Ti 2:2–4), younger women and men (Ti 2:4–7), and slaves (Ti 2:9–10); cf. Eph 6:1–9; Col 3:18–4:1.
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