006:003 So teach and exhort. If any one is a teacher of any other kind of doctrine, and refuses assent to wholesome instructions-- those of our Lord Jesus Christ--and the teaching that harmonizes with true godliness, 006:004 he is puffed up with pride and has no true knowledge, but is crazy over discussions and controversies about words which give rise to envy, quarrelling, revilings, ill-natured suspicions, 006:005 and persistent wranglings on the part of people whose intellects are disordered and they themselves blinded to all knowledge of the truth; who imagine that godliness means gain. 006:006 And godliness *is* gain, when associated with contentment; 006:007 for we brought nothing into the world, nor can we carry anything out of it; 006:008 and if we have food and clothing, with these we will be satisfied. 006:009 But people who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many unwise and pernicious ways which sink mankind in destruction and ruin. 006:010 For from love of money all sorts of evils arise; and some have so hankered after money as to be led astray from the faith and be pierced through with countless sorrows. 006:011 But you, O man of God, must flee from these things; and strive for uprightness, godliness, good faith, love, fortitude, and a forgiving temper. 006:012 Exert all your strength in the honourable struggle for the faith; lay hold of the Life of the Ages, to which you were called, when you made your noble profession of faith before many witnesses. 006:013 I charge you--as in the presence of God who gives life to all creatures, and of Christ Jesus who at the bar of Pontius Pilate made a noble profession of faith-- 006:014 that you keep God's commandments stainlessly and without reproach till the Appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ. 006:015 For, as its appointed time, this will be brought about by the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 006:016 who alone possesses immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, and whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be eternal honour and power! Amen. 006:017 Impress on those who are rich in the present age that they must not be haughty nor set their hopes on riches-- that unstable foundation--but on God who provides us richly with all things for our enjoyment. 006:018 They must be beneficent, rich in noble deeds, open-handed and liberal; 006:019 storing up for themselves that which shall be a solid foundation for the future, that they may lay hold of the Life which is life indeed. 006:020 O Timothy, guard the truths entrusted to you, shunning irreligious and frivolous talk, and controversy with what is falsely called `knowledge';