- 6:1 As many as are slaves under the yoke should regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, lest the name of God and our teaching be blasphemed.
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凡在轭下作奴仆的，当以自己的主人为配受十分尊敬的，免得神的名和我们的教训被亵渎。
- 6:2 And those who have believing masters should not despise them, because they are brothers; but rather they should serve them, because those who recompense them for the kindly service received are believers and beloved. These things teach and exhort.
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奴仆若有信主的主人，不可因他们是弟兄就轻看他们，倒要越发服事他们，因为受到你们善良事工之益，而要还报你们的，是相信并蒙爱的。这些事你要教导人，并劝勉人。
- 6:3 If anyone teaches different things and does not consent to healthy words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching which is according to godliness,
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若有人教导的不同，不赞同健康的话，就是我们主耶稣基督的话，以及那合乎敬虔的教训，
- 6:4 He is blinded with pride, understanding nothing, but is diseased with questionings and contentions of words, out of which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions,
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他是为高傲所蒙蔽，一无所知，却好问难，争辩言辞，由此就生出嫉妒、争竞、毁谤、恶意的猜疑，
- 6:5 Perpetual wranglings of men corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, supposing godliness to be a means of gain.
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以及那败坏了心思，以敬虔为得利的门路，而失丧了真理之人无止境的争论。
- 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain;
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然而敬虔又知足，便是大利了；
- 6:7 For we have brought nothing into the world, because neither can we carry anything out.
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因为我们没有带什么到世界来，也不能带什么去；
- 6:8 But having food and covering, with these we will be content.
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只要有养生与遮身之物，就当以此为足。
- 6:9 But those who intend to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge men into destruction and ruin.
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但那些想要发财的人，就陷在试诱、网罗、和许多无知有害的私欲里，叫人沉溺在败坏和灭亡中。
- 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all evils, because of which some, aspiring after money, have been led away from the faith and pierced themselves through with many pains.
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因为贪财是万恶之根，有人贪恋钱财，就受迷惑，离弃了信仰，用许多苦痛把自己刺透了。
- 6:11 But you, O man of God, flee these things, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, meekness.
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但你这属神的人阿，要逃避这些事，竭力追求公义、敬虔、信、爱、忍耐、温柔。
- 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold on the eternal life, to which you were called and have confessed the good confession before many witnesses.
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你要为信仰打那美好的仗，持定永远的生命；你已蒙召进入这永远的生命，也在许多见证人面前，作了美好的承认。
- 6:13 I charge you before God, who preserves all things in life, and Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate,
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我在使万物生存的神，并那向本丢彼拉多，作过美好承认之见证的基督耶稣面前嘱咐你，
- 6:14 To keep the commandment spotless, without reproach, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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要保守这命令不受玷污，无可指责，直到我们的主耶稣基督显现；
- 6:15 Which in its own times the blessed and only Sovereign will show, the King of those who reign as kings and Lord of those who rule as lords,
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在适当的时期，那可称颂、独有权能的，万王之王，万主之主，
- 6:16 Who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen nor can see, to whom be honor and eternal might. Amen.
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就是那独一不死，住在不能靠近的光中，是人未曾看见，也不能看见的，要将基督这显现显明出来。愿尊贵和永远的权能都归与祂。阿们。
- 6:17 Charge those who are rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to set their hope on the uncertainty of riches but on God, who affords us all things richly for our enjoyment;
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你要嘱咐那些今世富足的人，不要心思高傲，也不要寄望于无定的钱财，只要寄望于那将百物丰富的供给我们享受的神；
- 6:18 To do good, to be rich in good works, to be ready to distribute, to be ones willing to share;
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又要嘱咐他们行善，在善事上富足，甘心分授，乐意与人同享，
- 6:19 Laying away for themselves a good foundation as a treasure for the future, that they may lay hold on that which is really life.
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为着将来，替自己积存美好的根基作宝藏，叫他们持定那真实的生命。
- 6:20 O Timothy, guard the deposit, turning away from profane, vain babblings and oppositions from what is falsely called knowledge,
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提摩太阿，你要保守所托付你的，避开世俗的空谈，和那些冒称知识的反论；
- 6:21 Because of which some, professing this, have misaimed regarding the faith. Grace be with you.
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有些人自称有这知识，就在信仰上偏离了目标。愿恩典与你们同在。