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6 All believers who are slaves should honor their masters in every way. Then people will not have a reason to speak evil about God or about the things that we teach.
2 Also, slaves who have masters who believe in the Messiah should not disrespect those masters because they are fellow believers. Instead, they should serve their masters even better because those who benefit from their good work are fellow believers in the Messiah, and God loves them. Teach these things and urge our people to do them.
3 Some people teach things that are not true. They do not accept the reliable message about our Lord Jesus the Messiah. And they do not accept the teaching about how to live in a manner that pleases God. 4 These people are proud, but they do not understand anything. Instead, they abnormally desire to argue about unimportant matters and about certain words. Their behavior causes them to envy other people. They quarrel with others, they say bad things about others, and they suspect that others have evil motives. 5 They constantly quarrel with other people. Their whole way of thinking has become completely wrong. They have rejected the true teaching. As a result, they think that the purpose of living in a godly way is to gain material things.
6 But we do gain great benefit when we live in a godly way and when we are content with what we have. 7 This is true because we brought nothing into the world when we were born, and we are not able to take anything out of it when we die. 8 So if we have food and clothing, we should be satisfied with those things. 9 But some people strongly desire to be rich. As a result, they do wrong things to get money. Then bad things happen to them, and they cannot escape from them. They foolishly desire many things that will hurt them and, in the end, these things destroy them. 10 You see, people do all sorts of evil things when they strongly desire to have a lot of money. Some people started desiring money and so they stopped desiring to follow Jesus. By doing this, they have made themselves sorrowful in many ways.
11 But you, as a man who serves God, must avoid these evil things. Instead, decide that you will do what is right, and that you will live to please God. Trust God, and love others. Endure the difficult things that happen to you. Always be gentle with people. 12 Try earnestly to live according to what you believe, knowing that this is a good thing to do. Make sure that you have the gift of eternal life that God chose for you to have when you openly said before many witnesses that you belonged to the Messiah.
13 We are in the presence of God who gives life to all things. We are in the presence of the Messiah Jesus who boldly declared what was true when he was on trial before Pontius Pilate. In their presence, I give you this command: 14 Obey what the Messiah has commanded us. Do not do anything wrong. That way no one will be able to criticize you. Continue to obey until our Lord Jesus the Messiah comes again. 15 God will cause Jesus to come back at the perfect time. We praise God. He is the only Ruler! He is the King over all other kings and the Lord over all other rulers! 16 God is the only one who will never die. He lives in heaven in light that is so bright that no one can approach it! He is the one whom no person has ever seen and whom no person is able to see! My desire is that all people will honor him and that he will rule powerfully forever! May it be so!
17 Tell the believers who are rich here in this present world that they should not be proud. They should not trust in their many possessions because they cannot be certain how long they will have them. Instead, tell them to trust in God. He is the one who abundantly gives us everything that we have, and he wants us to enjoy it. 18 Tell these rich believers to do good things. Tell them they should want to do a lot of good works instead of acquiring a lot of money. They must be generous with their possessions and be willing to share what they have with others. 19 If they do that, it will be as though they were storing up for themselves many good things for their future life in heaven. Having done all of those good deeds will prepare them well for the life that God wants to give them. That is the real life. 20 Timothy, protect the true message that God has given to you. Avoid people who want to chatter about things that are not important to God. Avoid also people who falsely claim that they have true knowledge, but who say things that oppose the true things that we teach. 21 Certain people believe these things and have stopped believing the truth about God. May God be kind to you all.