Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.