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| 1 Warning against false teachers (1:1-11) the unchaste, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is opposed to sound teaching, (1:10) | False teacher / true teacher | 3 Instructions concerning prayer (2:1-15) For this I was appointed preacher and apostle (I am speaking the truth, I am not lying), teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. (2:7) |
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| 4 Qualifications of bishops and deacons (3:1-13) see 1-1 | see 1-1 | 6 A good minister of Jesus Christ (4:6-16) see 1-1 |
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| 7 Duties toward believers (5:1-6:2) Command this, so that they may be irreproachable. (5:7) | Living without reproach | 9 The good fight of faith (6:11-21) to keep the commandment without stain or reproach until the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ (6:14) |