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"1": "{From} Paul, a man who represents Jesus the Messiah. God, the one who saves us, and the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom we hope, commanded me to do this.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
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"2": "You, Timothy, are {like} a true son to me as a fellow believer. May God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ act kindly and mercifully to you, and keep you peaceful.",
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"3": "As I urged you when I was going to the province of Macedonia, remain in the city of Ephesus. {Stay there} so that you can command certain men there to stop teaching people {things that are} different {from the} truth.",
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"4": "Instruct them to stop focusing on old useless stories and endless lists of ancestors, which cause people to argue with each other. Those things do not promote God’s plan—that happens when we trust in God.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"5": "We want people to desire only what is good. We want them to know within themselves that God approves of what they do. We want them to believe the truth sincerely. All this will make them love others. That is what we want to accomplish {when we insist} on this command.",
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"6": "Some people have rejected these good things. Instead, they prefer to teach useless things.",
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"7": "They desire to be teachers of the laws {that God gave to Moses}, but they do not understand the things that they talk about, or the things that they insist are true.\n\\p",
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"8": "But we know that the laws {that God gave to Moses} are good if people use them in the right way.\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"9": "We know that God does not establish laws in order to judge good people, but to judge people who act as though there are no laws and who refuse to obey anyone. {God establishes laws} for those who do not honor God and who sin, for those who do not revere God and who pay no attention to him. {He establishes laws} for those who murder their fathers, for those who murder their mothers, and for those who murder other people.",
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"10": "{God establishes laws in order to judge} people who are sexually immoral, men who have sexual relations with other men, those who kidnap people {and sell them as slaves}, liars, those who are false witnesses {in courts of law}, and every other action that is contrary to {our} true teaching",
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"11": "All of this agrees with the wonderful good news that God, whom we praise, gave to me {to announce to others.}\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
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"12": "I am grateful to Jesus our Lord the Messiah who enabled me to do this work, because he considered that I could be trusted. So he appointed me to serve him.",
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"13": "Formerly I said false things about him, I caused his people to suffer, and I acted very violently {toward them}. But the Messiah acted kindly to me since I did not know that what I was doing was wrong, because I did not believe in him.",
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"14": "But our Lord abundantly did {for me} what I did not deserve, allowing me to believe in the Messiah Jesus and to love him as someone who belongs to him.\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
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"15": "Everyone should trust this statement and accept it completely: \"Jesus the Messiah came into the world to save sinful people {so that God would not punish them for their sins.\"} {As for me,} I have sinned worse than all the others.\n",
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"16": "But this is why the Messiah Jesus acted mercifully to me. He wanted to demonstrate to people that he is perfectly patient with them. I am the person who has sinned worse than all others. So he used me as an example for people who would later believe in him and, as a result, would live forever.\n\n\\p",
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"17": "God is the eternal king, the one who can never die and whom no one can see. He alone is God. So let us honor and praise forever and ever! May it be so!\n\n\\ts\\*\n\n\\ts\\*",
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"18": "Timothy, you are like a son to me. In agreement with what people previously prophesied about you, I am instructing you to use that encouragement to strongly oppose {those who teach wrong things.}",
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"19": "Continue to trust {in the Lord Jesus} and to do only what you know to be right! Some people have stopped doing this and so have destroyed their relationship with God.",
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"20": "Among the ones who have done this are Hymenaeus and Alexander. I put them into the control of Satan, so that {when Satan makes them suffer} they may learn not to insult God.",
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