1 Timothy 4:10-12
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
10 For this we toil and struggle,[a] because we have set our hope on the living God, who is the savior of all, especially of those who believe.(A)
11 [b]Command and teach these things. 12 Let no one have contempt for your youth,[c] but set an example for those who believe, in speech, conduct, love, faith, and purity.(B)
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- 4:10 Struggle: other manuscripts and patristic witnesses read “suffer reproach.”
- 4:11–16 Timothy is urged to preach and teach with confidence, relying on the gifts and the mission that God has bestowed on him.
- 4:12 Youth: some commentators find this reference a sign of pseudepigraphy. Timothy had joined Paul as a missionary already in A.D. 49, some fifteen years before the earliest supposed date of composition.
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