6. Laying these things before the brethren, thou wilt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and of the good teaching which thou hast fully followed up.
7. But profane and old wives' fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety;
8. for bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for everything, having promise of life, of the present one, and of that to come.
9. The word is faithful and worthy of all acceptation;
10. for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe.
11. Enjoin and teach these things.
12. Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
13. Till I come, give thyself to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.