Serving with Honor
(Ephesians 6:5–9; Colossians 3:22–25)

1Let as many as are slaves under a yoke account their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the teaching be not blasphemed. 2And let those having believing masters not despise them, because they are brethren; but let them serve them the more, because they are faithful and beloved, who are partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

Reject False Doctrines

3If anyone teaches otherwise, and consents not to healthful words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching according to godliness, 4he has become puffed up, knowing nothing, but morbid about questions and word-battles, out of which come envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, 5wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing godliness to be a source of gain.

Godliness with Contentment

6But godliness with contentment is a great source of gain; 7for nothing have we brought into the world, neither can we carry anything out; 8but, having food and raiment, with these we shall be content. 9But those, purposing to be rich, fall into temptation, and a snare, and many foolish and hurtful desires, which, indeed, sink men into destruction and perdition. 10For the love of money is a root of all the evils; which some reaching after wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Fight the Good Fight

11But do you, O man of God, flee these things: but pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, mildness. 12Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called, and confessed a good confession before many witnesses. 13I charge you before God who preserves alive all things, and Christ Jesus Who before Pontius Pilate testified a good confession, 14that you keep the commandment, unsullied, irreproachable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15which in His own times the Happy and Only Potentate will show, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16Who only hath immortality, inhabiting light unapproachable, Whom no man ever saw or is able to see; to Whom be honor and dominion eternal. Amen.

A Charge to the Rich
(James 5:1–6)

17Charge those who are rich in this present age, not to be high-minded, nor to have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, Who giveth us richly all things for enjoyment; 18that they do good, that they be rich in good works, free to impart, liberal; 19treasuring up for themselves a good foundation for the future, that they may lay hold on that which is really life.

Guard the Faith

20O Timothy, guard the deposit; turning away from the profane babblings, and oppositions of that which is falsely called knowledge; 21which some professing erred concerning the faith. Grace be with you.