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11 These are the things you must insist on and teach.
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Command and teach these things.
12 Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
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Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.
13 Until I arrive, give attention to the public reading of scripture, to exhorting, to teaching.
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Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to preaching and to teaching.
14 Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.
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Do not neglect your gift, which was given you through prophecy when the body of elders laid their hands on you.
15 Put these things into practice, devote yourself to them, so that all may see your progress.
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Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress.
16 Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.
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Watch your life and doctrine closely. Persevere in them, because if you do, you will save both yourself and your hearers.
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