8. for bodily exercise is profitable for a little, but piety is profitable for everything, having promise of life, of the present one, and of that to come.
9. The word is faithful and worthy of all acceptation;
10. for, for this we labour and suffer reproach, because we hope in a living God, who is preserver of all men, specially of those that believe.
11. Enjoin and teach these things.
12. Let no one despise thy youth, but be a model of the believers, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
13. Till I come, give thyself to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.