Charge to Timothy: Practice and Perseverance

1 Timothy 4:12-16

Let no man despise thy youth: but be thou an example of the faithful, in word, in conversation, in charity, in faith, in chastity.

Till I come, attend unto reading, to exhortation and to doctrine.

Neglect not the grace that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with imposition of the hands of the priesthood.

Meditate upon these things, be wholly in these things: that thy profiting may be manifest to all.

Take heed to thyself and to doctrine: be earnest in them. For in doing this thou shalt both save thyself and them that hear thee.